Luke 3:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Isaiah 40:3

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

Jeremiah 1:2

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

Jeremiah 2:1

The LORD told me

Jonah 1:1

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

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.

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.

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?

Matthew 26:3

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

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.

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.

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!’ ”

John 18:24

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

Acts 4:6

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