...i. IN the fifteenth year of the reign of * Tiberius Casfar, Pontius Pilate being Governour of Judea, the word of God came unto John the Son of Zacharias in the wildernefs. 2. And he came into all the country about Jordan preaching the baptifm of repentance for...

...to meet the Messiah, and to declare him as the Saviour of his people. ' The word of God came to John in the wilderness ; and he came into all the country...preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.' (Luke iii. 2, 3.) ' John verily baptised with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the...

...of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, 2 Annas' and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. ' .3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching; the baptism of repentance for the remission...

...word of God came unto ohn the son of Zacharias in the Place, wilderness. And he came into all the j^a country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance...for the remission of sins; as it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before Place, thy face, which shall prepare thy way j^ r ^ r...

...of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, 2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness. 3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance, for the remission...

...being ''highpriests, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the 3 desert. And he went into all the country about Jordan preaching the baptism...the remission of sins, as it is written in the book of Isaiah, the prophet, 4 who saith : " A voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare ye the 1 This...

...of Trachouitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, 2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness. 3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission...

...part of Palestine, or because many Jews resided there. 2. Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness. observed, that the high priest possessing the chief civil power under the Romans, it was usual for...

...went into all the country along the Jordan, proclaiming a 4 baptism of reformation for a forgiveness of sins. As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, "A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord: make the roads for him straight....

...Baptist by a special revelation, which also revealed to him his own errand and office ; so Luke iii. 2, " ly receive it with gladness ; 17 and have no root in themselves, and so The perfect tense in this verse is stronger than the present, — I have seen (on the perf. see above...