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Luke 3:20 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison. "
Luke 3:20
Verse in Context
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And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.
But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.
Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee 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 Judaea, 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,"
Luke 3:2
"Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness."
Luke 3:3
"And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;"
Luke 3:4
"As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight."
Luke 3:5
"Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;"
Luke 3:6
"And all flesh shall see the salvation of God."
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