The Good News According to Luke, Chapter 3
{3:1} Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,
Pontius Pilate being governor of Yehudah, and Herod being tetrarch of
the Galil, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea
and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, {3:2} in the
[1>]kohanim gedolim[<1] of Anan and Kayafa, the word of God came to
Yochanan, the son of Zekharyah, in the wilderness. {3:3} He came into
all the region around the Yarden, preaching the immersion of
repentance for remission of sins. {3:4} As it is written in the book
of the words of Yeshaiyahu the prophet,
"The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
'Make ready the way of the Lord.
Make his paths straight.
{3:5} Every valley will be filled.
Every mountain and hill will be brought low.
The crooked will become straight,
And the rough ways smooth.
{3:6} All flesh will see God's salvation.'"
{3:7} He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be
immersed by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from
the wrath to come? {3:8} Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of
repentance, and don't begin to say among yourselves, 'We have Avraham
for our father;' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children
to Avraham from these stones! {3:9} Even now the axe also lies at the
root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn't bring forth good
fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire."
{3:10} The multitudes asked him, "What then must we do?"
{3:11} He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him give to him
who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise."
{3:12} Tax collectors also came to be immersed, and they said to
him, "Rabbi, what must we do?"
{3:13} He said to them, "Collect no more than that which is
appointed to you."
{3:14} Soldiers also asked him, saying, "What about us? What must we
do?"
He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse
anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages."
{3:15} As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in
their hearts concerning Yochanan, whether perhaps he was the Messiah,
{3:16} Yochanan answered them all, "I indeed immerse you with water,
but he comes who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose sandals I am
not worthy to loosen. He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and fire,
{3:17} whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his
threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will
burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
{3:18} Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to
the people, {3:19} but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for
Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evil things which Herod
had done, {3:20} added this also to them all, that he shut up Yochanan
in prison. {3:21} Now it happened, when all the people were immersed,
Yeshua also had been immersed, and was praying. The sky was opened,
{3:22} and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove on
him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying "You are my beloved Son.
In you I am well pleased."
{3:23} Yeshua himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty
years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Yosef, the son of Eli,
{3:24} the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Malki, the son
of Yannai, the son of Yosef, {3:25} the son of Mattityahu, the son of
`Amos, the son of Nachum, the son of Chesli, the son of Naggai, {3:26}
the son of Machat, the son of Mattityahu, the son of Shim`i, the son
of Yosef, the son of Yehudah, {3:27} the son of Yochanan, the son of
Reisha, the son of Zerubbavel, the son of She'alti'el, the son of
Neri, {3:28} the son of Malki, the son of Addi, the son of Kosam, the
son of Elmadan, the son of `Er, {3:29} the son of Yeshua, the son of
Eli`ezer, the son of Yoram, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,
{3:30} the son of Shim`on, the son of Yehudah, the son of Yosef, the
son of Yonam, the son of Elyakim, {3:31} the son of Mal'ah, the son of
Manah, the son of Mattatah, the son of Natan, the son of David, {3:32}
the son of Yishai, the son of `Oved, the son of Bo`az, the son of
Salmon, the son of Nachshon, {3:33} the son of `Amminadav, the son of
Aram, the son of Chetzron, the son of Peretz, the son of Yehudah,
{3:34} the son of Ya`akov, the son of Yitzchak, the son of Avraham,
the son of Terach, the son of Nachor, {3:35} the son of Serug, the son
of Re`u, the son of Peleg, the son of `Ever, the son of Shelach {3:36}
the son of Kenan, the son of Arpakhshad, the son of Shem, the son of
Noach, the son of Lamekh, {3:37} the son of Metushelach, the son of
Chanokh, the son of Yered, the son of Mahalal'el, the son of Kenan,
{3:38} the son of Enosh, the son of Shet, the son of Adam, the son of
God.
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Footnotes:
[1] {3:2} high priesthood
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