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 4:6Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.
• John 18:24Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.
• Luke 1:80The child was growing, and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
• Jonah 1:1Now Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
• Matt 26:3Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
• Mic 1:1Yahweh’s word that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
• Isa 40:3The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
• John 11:49–51But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
• Zeph 1:1Yahweh’s word which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.
• Matt 3:1–10In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,
• John 18:13–14and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
• John 1:23He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”
• Matt 11:7As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
• Luke 3:3–17He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.
• Luke 1:59–63On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.
• Jer 2:1Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
• Jer 1:2Yahweh’s word came to him 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, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!’”
• Ezek 1:3Yahweh’s word came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and Yahweh’s hand was there on him.
• Hos 1:1–2Yahweh’s word that came to 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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