Luke 3:2

Contemporary English Version 1995

Annas and Caiaphas were the Jewish high priests. At that time God spoke to Zechariah's son John, who was living in the desert.

Cross References

Acts 4:6

The high priest Annas was there, as well as Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and other members of the high priest's family.

John 18:24

Jesus was still tied up, and Annas sent him to Caiaphas the high priest.

Luke 1:80

As John grew up, God's Spirit gave him great power. John lived in the desert until the time he was sent to the people of Israel.

Jonah 1:1

One day the Lord told Jonah, the son of Amittai,

John 1:23

John answered in the words of the prophet Isaiah, “I am only someone shouting in the desert, ‘Get the road ready for the Lord!’ ”

Matthew 26:3

At that time the chief priests and the nation's leaders were meeting at the home of Caiaphas the high priest.

Isaiah 40:3

Someone is shouting: “Clear a path in the desert! Make a straight road for the Lord our God.

Matthew 11:7

As John's followers were going away, Jesus spoke to the crowds about John: What sort of person did you go out into the desert to see? Was he like tall grass blown about by the wind?

Zephaniah 1:1

I am Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the grandson of Gedaliah, the great-grandson of Amariah, and the great-great-grandson of Hezekiah. When Josiah son of Amon was king of Judah, the Lord gave me this message.

Micah 1:1

I am Micah from Moresheth. And this is the message about Samaria and Jerusalem that the Lord gave to me when Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were the kings of Judah.

Jeremiah 2:1

The Lord told me

Jeremiah 1:2

The Lord first spoke to me in the thirteenth year that Josiah was king of Judah,

Mark 1:2

It began just as God had said in the book written by Isaiah the prophet, “I am sending my messenger to get the way ready for you.