Luke 3:2 Cross References - Haweis

² when Annas and Caiaphas were high-priests, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness;

¹ THEN in those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the desert country of Judea, ² and saying, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is nigh. ³ For this is the person spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, "The voice of one crying aloud in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths strait." ⁴ Now this John had his garment made of camel's hair, and a girdle of leather about his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey. ⁵ Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the regions about Jordan, ⁶ and were baptized by him in Jordan, on making confession of their sins. ⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, O ye broods of vipers! who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? ⁸ Produce then worthy fruits of repentance: ⁹ and think not to say in yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say unto you, that God is able out of these stones to raise up children to Abraham. ¹⁰ And now also the ax is laid to the root of the trees: every tree therefore which produceth not good fruit, is hewing down, and casting into the fire.

⁷ And when they were gone, Jesus began to speak to the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

³ Then were the chief priests and scribes, and the elders of the people gathered together in the palace of the high-priest, called Caiaphas.

³ The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths strait." ⁴ John was baptising in the wilderness, and preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. ⁵ And all the country of Judea went out to him, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptised by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

⁵⁹ And it came to pass, on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him after the name of his father, Zacharias. ⁶⁰ And his mother spake and said, No; but he shall be called John. ⁶¹ And they said to her, There is not one among thy relations, who is called by this name. ⁶² And they made signs to his father, what he would have him called. ⁶³ And desiring a writing tablet, he wrote, saying, John is his name. And they were all surprised.

⁸⁰ And the child grew, and became mighty in spirit, and was in the deserts until the days of his public exhibition to Israel.

³ and he came into all the country on the confines of Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; ⁴ as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, saying, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths strait: ⁵ every valley shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be levelled, and the crooked ways made strait, and the rough roads smooth: ⁶ and all flesh shall see the salvation of God." ⁷ He said, therefore, to the multitudes who came out to be baptised by him, Ye broods of vipers, who hath warned you to fly from the approaching wrath? ⁸ Produce then fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say in yourselves, We have a father, even Abraham; for I say unto you, That God is able out of these stones to raise up children to Abraham. ⁹ But now is the ax laid even to the root of the trees; every tree therefore that produceth not good fruit, is cut down and cast into the fire. ¹⁰ And the multitudes asked him, saying, What then shall we do? ¹¹ And he answering said to them, He that hath two coats, let him give to him that hath none; and he that hath provisions, let him do in like manner. ¹² Then came also the farmers of the taxes to be baptised, and they said unto him, Master, what shall we do? ¹³ He said unto them, Exact nothing more than is appointed for you. ¹⁴ And the military men also asked him, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Extort nothing by force; nor turn informers; and be content with your pay. ¹⁵ Now when the people were in expectation, and many reasoned in their hearts respecting John, whether he were the Messiah, ¹⁶ John addressed himself to them all, saying, I indeed baptise you with water; but one mightier than I is coming, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie: he shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost and with fire; ¹⁷ whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor, and collect the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.

²³ He said, I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way for the Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah.

⁴⁹ Then one particular person of them, Caiaphas, being the high-priest of that year, said unto them, Ye know nothing, ⁵⁰ nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation be not destroyed. ⁵¹ And this he spake not from himself: but being the high-priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation;

¹³ and led him away to Annas first; for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was the high-priest of that year. ¹⁴ Now Caiaphas was the person who had given his advice to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should be destroyed instead of the people.

²⁴ Now Annas had sent him bound to Caiaphas the high-priest.

⁶ and Annas the high-priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were the high-priest's relations.