26 lines
1.2 KiB
Markdown
26 lines
1.2 KiB
Markdown
+++
|
||
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.
|