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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Luke 3 Mace New Testament</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/luke/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/luke/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Mace</a> > Luke 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../luke/2.htm" title="Luke 2">◄</a> Luke 3 <a href="../luke/4.htm" title="Luke 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Mace New Testament</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/luke/3-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Mission of John the Baptist<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/3.htm">Matthew 3:1–12</a>; <a href ="../mark/1.htm">Mark 1:1–8</a>; <a href ="../john/1.htm#19">John 1:19–28</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the fifteenth year of the emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea; Herod tetrarch of Gallilee: Philip his brother tetrarch of Iturea and Trachonitis: and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene: <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>under the pontificate of Annas and Caiaphas, JOHN, the son of Zacharias, received his divine commission in the wilderness. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>in pursuance of which, he went into all the country about Jordan, exhorting all to repent and be baptized, in order to obtain the remission of their sins.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>as it is written in the book of the prophecies of Esaias, "the voice of one crying in the desart, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths clear.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be level'd: the crooked shall be made strait, and the rough ways shall be made smooth,<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and all men shall behold the divine saviour."<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>he said therefore to the people that crowded to be baptized by him, ye brood of vipers, who has prompted you to flee from approaching wrath? <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>let your actions therefore show your repentance, and don't pretend to say within yourselves, "we have Abraham for our father:" for I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>the ax is already laid to the root of the trees: every tree then, which does not produce good fruit, shall be hewn down, and cast into the fire.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Upon which the people asked him, what then shall we do? <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>he answer'd them, let him that hath two coats give one to him that hath none; and let him that has plenty of provisions act in like manner. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>the Publicans likewise came to be baptized, and said to him, master, how are we to act? <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>exact, said he, no more than what the law requires. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>the soldiers too made the same demand, how are we to act? he answer'd them, injure no man either by violence or by fraud, and be content with your pay.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>As the people were in suspence, every man imagining in his own mind that John might be the Messiah; <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>he address'd himself to them all, saying, I indeed baptize you with water; but there is one coming, who is superiour to me, whose shoes I am unworthy to untie: he shall baptize you with the holy spirit, under the appearance of fire. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and with the fan in his hand he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will lay up the wheat in his grainery: but the chaff he will burn with inextinguishable fire.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>many other things he delivered to the people in his exhortations. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>but having reproved Herod the tetrarch upon account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, and for all the mischiefs that Herod had done; <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>to compleat all the rest, Herod confin'd John in prison.<p> <A name="22"></a><p class="hdg">The Baptism of Jesus<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/3.htm#13">Matthew 3:13–17</a>; <a href ="../mark/1.htm#9">Mark 1:9–11</a>; <a href ="../john/1.htm#29">John 1:29–34</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>When all the people were baptizing, Jesus was likewise baptized, and whilst he was praying, the clouds opened, <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and the holy spirit descended upon him in a corporeal form like a dove, and a voice came from heaven, which said, thou art my beloved son, in thee I am well pleased.<p> <A name="24"></a><p class="hdg">The Genealogy of Jesus<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/1.htm">Matthew 1:1–17</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Jesus was then about thirty years of age, being, as was suppos'd, the son of Joseph, <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>son of Heli, son of Matthat, son of Levi, son of Melchi, son of Janna, son of Joseph, <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>son of Mattathias, son of Amos, son of Naum, son of Esli, son of Nagge, <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>son of Maath, son of Mattathias, son of Semi, son of Joseph, son of Juda, son of Joanna, <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>son of Rhesa, son of Zorobabel, son of Salathiel, <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>son of Neri, son of Melchi, son of Addi, son of Cosam, son of Elmodam, son of Er, <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>son of Jose, son of Eliezer, son of Jorim, son of Matthat, son of Levi, son of Simeon, <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>son of Juda, son of Joseph, son of Jonan, son of Eliakim, <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>son of Melea, son of Menan, son of Mattatha, son of Nathan, son of David, <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>son of Jesse, son of Obed, son of Booz, son of Salmon, <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>son of Naasson, son of Aminadab, son of Aram, son of Esrom, son of Phares, son of Juda, <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>son of Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham, son of Thara, son of Nachor, son of Saruch, <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>son of Ragau, son of Phalec, son of Heber, son of Sala, <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>son of Cainan, son of Arphaxad, son of Sem, son of Noe, son of Lamech, son of Mathusala, <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>son of Enoch, son of Jared, son of Maleleel, <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/3-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>son of Cainan, son of Enos, son of Seth, son of Adam, the son of God.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Daniel Mace New Testament (1729)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../luke/2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Luke 2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Luke 2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../luke/4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Luke 4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Luke 4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>