The Preaching of John the
Baptist
LK 3:1-6
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius
Caesar,
when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea,
and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee,
and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region
of Ituraea and Trachonitis,
and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,
during the high priesthood of Annas and
Caiaphas,
the word of God came to John the son of
Zechariah in the desert.
John went throughout the whole region of the
Jordan,
proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the
forgiveness of sins,
as it is written in the book of the words of the
prophet Isaiah:
A voice of one crying out in the desert:
“Prepare the way of the Lord,
make straight his paths.
Every valley shall be filled
and every mountain and hill shall
be made low.
The winding roads shall be made
straight,
and the rough ways made smooth,
and all flesh shall see the
salvation of God.”