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Luke 3:20 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison. "
Luke 3:20
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18 Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people,
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,
20 added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.
21 Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized and was praying. The sky was opened,
22 and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”
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Luke 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,"
Luke 3:2
"during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness."
Luke 3:3
"He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins."
Luke 3:4
"As it is written in the book 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."
Luke 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."
Luke 3:6
"All flesh will see God’s salvation.’”"
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