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1richardbsmith
Luke 3:1-6
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas,
the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.
He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, The voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
Prepare the way of the lord, make his paths straight.
Every valley shall be filled,
and every mountain and hill shall be made low,
and the crooked shall be made straight,
and the rough ways made smooth;
and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas,
the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.
He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, The voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
Prepare the way of the lord, make his paths straight.
Every valley shall be filled,
and every mountain and hill shall be made low,
and the crooked shall be made straight,
and the rough ways made smooth;
and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”
2richardbsmith
John, son of Zachariah, brings something new.
What is it?
What is a "baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins?"
How does this new baptism prepare the way?
It is interesting to look closely at the Isaiah passage, as also with the other synoptic treatments of the passage.
What is it?
What is a "baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins?"
How does this new baptism prepare the way?
It is interesting to look closely at the Isaiah passage, as also with the other synoptic treatments of the passage.
3richardbsmith
Does anyone know of a textual reason that the translations place "in the desert" so to modify the voice that is calling, rather than, with the Hebrew, to modify the command "prepare the way in the desert"?
I understand the context is that JB is in the desert, and that context tends to support the treatment of the translations, but is there any textual evidence that supports that treatment?
I understand the context is that JB is in the desert, and that context tends to support the treatment of the translations, but is there any textual evidence that supports that treatment?
