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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Luke 3 ISV</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="../">ISV</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 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">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/luke/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">John the Baptist Prepares the Way for Jesus</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/matthew/3.htm">Matthew 3:1-12</a>; <a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/mark/1.htm">Mark 1:1-8</a>; <a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/john/1.htm">John 1:19-28</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Caesar Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and Annas and Caiaphas high priests, a message from God came to John, the son of Zechariah, in the wilderness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>John<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:3 Lit. He">a</a></span> went throughout the entire Jordan region, proclaiming a baptism about repentance for the forgiveness of sins, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah,</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop">“He is a voice calling out in the wilderness:</p> <p class="poetry2">‘Prepare the way for the Lord!<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:4 Cf. Isa 40:3; MT source citation reads LORD">b</a></span> Make his paths straight!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Every valley will be filled,</p> <p class="poetry2">and every mountain and hill will be leveled.</p> <p class="poetry2">The crooked ways will be made straight,</p> <p class="poetry2">and the rough roads will be made smooth.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Everyone<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:6 Lit. All flesh">c</a></span> will see the salvation</p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot">that God has provided.’”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:6 Isa 40:3-5">d</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>John would say to the crowds that were coming out to be baptized by him, “You children of serpents! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Produce fruit that is consistent with repentance! Don’t begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have father Abraham!’ because I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The ax already lies against the roots of the trees. So every tree not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into a fire.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The crowds kept asking him, “What, then, should we do?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He answered them, “The person who has two coats must share with the one who doesn’t have any, and the person who has food must do the same.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Even some tax collectors came to be baptized. They asked him, “Teacher, what should we do?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He told them, “Stop collecting more money than the amount you are told to collect.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Even some soldiers were asking him, “And what should we do?”</p> <p class="reg">He told them, “Never extort money from anyone by threats or blackmail, and be satisfied with your pay.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now the people were filled with expectation, and all of them were wondering if John was perhaps the Messiah.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:15 Or Christ">e</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>John replied to all of them, “I’m baptizing you with<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:16 Or in">f</a></span> water, but one is coming who is more powerful than I, and I’m not worthy to untie his sandal straps. It is he who will baptize you with<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:16 Or in">g</a></span> the Holy Spirit and fire. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>His winnowing fork is in his hand to clean up his threshing floor. He’ll gather the grain into his barn, but he’ll burn the chaff with inextinguishable fire.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>With many other exhortations John<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:18 Lit. he">h</a></span> continued to proclaim the good news to the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Now Herod the tetrarch had been rebuked by John<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:19 Lit. him">i</a></span> because he had married<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:19 Lit. because of">j</a></span> his brother’s wife Herodias and because of all of the other evil things Herod had done. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Added to all this, Herod<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:20 Lit. he">k</a></span> locked John up in prison.</p> <p class="heading">Jesus is Baptized</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/matthew/3.htm">Matthew 3:13-17</a>; <a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/mark/1.htm">Mark 1:9-11</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>When all the people had been baptized, Jesus, too, was baptized. While he was praying, heaven opened, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and the Holy Spirit descended on him, appearing in the form of a dove. Then a voice came from heaven, saying,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:22 The Gk. lacks saying">l</a></span> “You are my Son, whom I love. I am pleased with you!”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:22 Other mss. read You are my Son. Today I have become your Father.">m</a></span> </p> <p class="heading">The Ancestry of Jesus</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/matthew/1.htm">Matthew 1:1-17</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Jesus himself was about 30 years old when he began his ministry.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:23 The Gk. lacks his ministry">n</a></span> He was (as legally calculated)<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:23 i.e. in conformity to genealogy reckonings then in effect; or (so it was thought) ">o</a></span> the son of Joseph, the son of Heli, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:27 Or Shealtiel; cf. 1Chr 3:17; Ezra 3:2,8; 5:2; Neh 12:1; Matt 1:12">p</a></span> the son of Neri, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>the son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:32 Other mss. read Sala">q</a></span> the son of Nahshon, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>the son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>the son of Cainan,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:36 The inclusion of Cainan here follows the LXX; cf. Gen 10:4,24; 11:12-13; 1Chron 1:7">r</a></span> the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/3-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 3:3 Lit. <i>He</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 3:4 Cf. Isa 40:3; MT source citation reads <i>LORD</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 3:6 Lit. <i>All flesh</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 3:6 Isa 40:3-5<br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 3:15 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 3:16 Or <i>in</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 3:16 Or <i>in</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 3:18 Lit. <i>he</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 3:19 Lit. <i>him</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 3:19 Lit. <i>because of</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 3:20 Lit. <i>he</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 3:22 The Gk. lacks <i>saying</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 3:22 Other mss. read <i>You are my Son. Today I have become your Father.</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 3:23 The Gk. lacks <i>his ministry</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 3:23 i.e. in conformity to genealogy reckonings then in effect; or <i>(so it was thought)</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 3:27 Or <i>Shealtiel</i>; cf. 1Chr 3:17; Ezra 3:2,8; 5:2; Neh 12:1; Matt 1:12<br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 3:32 Other mss. read <i>Sala</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 3:36 The inclusion of Cainan here follows the LXX; cf. 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