Luke 3:3
“And he came into all the countrey about Iordane, preaching the baptisme of repentance, for the remissiō of sinnes,”
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Luke 3:3 Context
1Now in the fifteenth yeere of the reigne of Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate being Gouernour of Iudea, & Herode being Tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip Tetrarch of Iturea, and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the Tetrarch of Abilene, 2Annas and Caiaphas being the high Priests, the word of God came vnto Iohn the sonne of Zacharias, in the wildernesse. 3And he came into all the countrey about Iordane, preaching the baptisme of repentance, for the remissiō of sinnes, 4As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the Prophet, saying, The voyce of one crying in the wildernesse, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 5Euery valley shall be filled, and euery mountaine and hill shalbe brought low, and the crooked shall bee made straight, and the rough wayes shall be made smooth.
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And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
- King James Version
And he came into all the district around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins;
- New American Standard Version (1995)