Luke 3:2

During the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John in the wilderness. It matters because John is divinely commissioned as a prophet.

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• Acts 4:6And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.
• John 18:24Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.
• Luke 1:80And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.
• Jonah 1:1Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
• Matt 26:3Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
• Mic 1:1The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
• Isa 40:3The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
• John 11:49–51And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
• Zeph 1:1The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
• Matt 3:1–10In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,
• John 18:13–14And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.
• John 1:23He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
• Matt 11:7And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
• Luke 3:3–17And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
• Luke 1:59–63And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.
• Jer 2:1Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
• Jer 1:2To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
• Mark 1:3–5The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
• Ezek 1:3The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.
• Hos 1:1–2The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

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