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Day 47 of 90 · 90 Days Through the Gospels

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,

Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;

CONTEXT

Original word: ἡγεμονίας (hēgemonía) · government, i.e. (in time) official term

REFLECTION

Each Gospel tells the same good news from its own angle. What does Luke 3:1 emphasise?

PRAYER

Lord, let what I read today shape how I live today. Amen.

QUESTION

How do people respond to Jesus here?

ONE ACTION TODAY

Read the chapter again tonight and underline one verse.

Reflections are drafts awaiting pastoral review.

Source

King James Version (1769 standardized text). Public domain outside the United Kingdom; in the UK, printing rights are held by the Crown's patentees, so Gloryian offers no printed copies there. Source: eBible.org (eng-kjv2006). Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.