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 Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of
Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and
Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, {3:2} in the high
priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to Yochanan,
the son of Zechariah, in the wilderness. {3:3} He came into all the
region around the Jordan, proclaiming the immersion of repentance for
remission of sins. {3:4} As it is written in the scroll of the words
of Isaiah 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.'"[1]
{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 Abraham
for our father;' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children
to Abraham 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 [2>]brother's[<2] 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 Joseph, the son of Eli,
{3:24} the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son
of Jannai, the son of Joseph, {3:25} the son of Mattithiah, the son of
Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, {3:26} the
son of Maath, the son of Mattithiah, the son of Shimei, the son of
Joseph, the son of Judah, {3:27} the son of Yochanan, the son of
Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,
{3:28} the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son
of Elmodam, the son of Er, {3:29} the son of Yosi, the son of Eliezer,
the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, {3:30} the son
of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the
son of Eliakim, {3:31} the son of Maleah, the son of Manah, the son of
Mattathah, the son of Nathan, the son of David, {3:32} the son of
Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of
Nahshon, {3:33} the son of Amminadab, the son of [3>]Ram,[<3] the son
of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, {3:34} the son of
Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son
of Nahor, {3:35} the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg,
the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, {3:36} the son of Kenan, the son
of Arpachshad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
{3:37} the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the
son of Mahalalel, the son of Kenan, {3:38} the son of Enosh, the son
of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
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Footnotes:
[1] {3:6} Isaiah 40:3-5
[2] {3:19} TR reads "brother Philip's" instead of "brother's"
[3] {3:33} NU reads "Admin, the son of Arni" instead of "Ram"
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