diff --git a/content/bible_journal/luke_3:1-9.md b/content/bible_journal/luke_3:1-9.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0585334 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/luke_3:1-9.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ ++++ +title = "Luke 3:1–9" +date = "2022-10-26" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk3.1-9) + +Luke shifts his narrative focus again to John the Baptist's ministry. There is +another time skip, and this time we are given a lot more references to help pin +down when events took place. Five Roman rulers and two Jewish high priests are +mentioned. Normally, the Jews had only one high priest at a time, but the Roman +conquerors meddled in local politics by deposing Annas and put his son-in-law +Caiaphas in his place. The fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar's reign was around +A.D. 27–29. + +John returns from the wilderness with the word of the Lord to say to the +people: "Repent!" Thus he fulfills the prophecy in Isaiah concerning the "voice +of one crying in the wilderness". He calls the people to turn from their sins +and ask God to forgive them before He brings judgement on the earth. There was +a common idea at the time that because the Jews were God's chosen people, they +would be exalted in the Day of the Lord. John refutes them by saying physical +descendence from Abraham isn't the point, but a spiritual descendence. + +* * * + +Your words are forever true, and You do not change through the ages.