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Luke 3

3 The preaching, baptism, and prisonment of John. 15 He is thought to be Christ. 21 Christ is baptised. 23 His age, and genealogy.
1.Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and aHerod being tetrarch of Galile, & his brother Philippe tetrarch of Iturea, and of the country of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
2.(*When Annas and Caiaphas were the high bPriests) the word of God came unto John, the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
3.*And he came into all the coasts about Jordan, preaching the baptism fo repentance for the remission of sins,
4.As it is written in the book of the sayings of Esaias the Prophet, which saith, *The voice of him that cryeth in the wilderness is, Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make his paths straight.
5.Every cvalley shalbe filled, and every mountain, and hill shalbe brought low, and croked things shalbe made straight, and the rough ways shalbe made smooth.
6.And ^all flesh shall see the dsalvation of God.
7.Then said he to the people that were come out to be baptised of him, ^*O generations of vipers, who hath forewarned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8.Bring forth therefore fruits worthy amendment of life, and begin not to say with your selves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
9.Now also is the eaxe laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit, shalbe hewen down and cast into the fire.
10.¶ Then the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
11.And he answered, and said unto them, *He fthat hath two coats, let him part with him that hath none: and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
12.Then came there gPublicans also to be baptised, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?
13.And he said unto them, Require no more then that which is appointed unto you.
14.The soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages.
15.As the people waited, and all men mused in their hearts of John, if he were not the Christ,
16.John answered, and said to them all, *In deed I hbaptise you with water, but one stronger then I, cometh, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose: he will baptise you with the holie Ghost, and iwith fire.
17.*Whose fan is in his hand, and he will make clean his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaff will he burn up with fire that never shalbe quenched.
18.Thus then exhorting with many other things, he preached unto the people.
19.*But when kHerod the tetrarch was rebuked of him for Herodias his brother Philippe’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
20.He added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.
21.*Now it came to pass, as all the people were baptised, & that Jesus was baptised and did pray, that the heaven was opened:
22.And the holie Ghost came down in a bodily shape like a dove, upon him, and there was a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son: in thee I am well pleased.
23.¶ And Jesus him self began to be about thirty year of age, being as men supposed the son of lJoseph, which was the son of Eli,
24.of Matthat, of Levi, of Melchi, of Janna, the son of Joseph,
25.The son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Naum, the son of Esli, the son of Nagge,
26.The son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semei, the son of ^Joseph, the son of Juda,
27.The son of Joanna, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zorobabel, the son of Salathiel, the son of Neri,
28.of Melchi, of Addi, of Cosam, of Elmodam, the son of Er,
29.¶ The son of ^Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of ^Matthat, the son of Levi,
30.of Simeon, of Juda, of Joseph, son of Jonan, the son of Eliacim,
31.The son of Melea, the son of ^Mainan, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,
32.of Jesse, of Obed, Booz, of Salmon, the son of Naasson,
33.The son of Aminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Esrom, the son of Phares, the son of Juda,
34.The son of Jacob, the son of Issac, the son of Abraham, the son of Thara, the son of Nachor,
35.The son of Saruch, the son of Ragau, the son of Phalec, the son of Eber, the son of Sala,
36.The son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Sem, the son of Noe, the son of Lamech,
37.The son of Mathusala, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Maleleel, the son of Cainan,
38.of Enos, of Seth, of Adam, mof God.

Notes

1-a.
This was the son of Herod called the great.
2-*.
Acts 4.6.
2-b.
There could be by God’s Law but one sacrificer at once, but because of the troubles that then reigned, the office was so mangled by reason of ambition and bribery, that both Caiaphas and Annas his father in law had it divided between them.
3-*.
Mt. 3.1, Mk. 1.3.
4-*.
Is. 40.3, John 1.23.
5-c.
All impediments shall be taken away, which should hinder the way of God or of salvation, so that the way shall be pain by Christ to lead us unto God.
6-^.
Or, every man.
6-d.
That is, the Messiah shall be revealed to the world.
7-*.
Mt. 3.7.
7-^.
Or, viper’s broods.
9-e.
The vengeance of God is at hand.
11-*.
Jam. 2.15, 1 John 3.17.
11-f.
He wills that the rich help the poor according to their necessity.
12-g.
Whose office was to receive the tribute and toles.
16-*.
Mt. 3.11, Mk. 1.8, John 1.26, Acts 1.5, 2.2, 11.16, and 19.4.
16-h.
The virtue and force of baptism stands in Jesus Christ, and John was but the minister thereof.
16-i.
That is, with a mighty, and vehement Spirit: whose property is to consume, and purge our filth as fire does the metals.
17-*.
Mt. 3.12.
19-*.
Mt. 14.3, Mk. 6.17.
19-k.
Named Antipas.
21-*.
Mt. 3.13, Mk. 1.9, John 1.32.
23-l.
Luke ascends from the last father to the first, and Matthew descends from the first to the last. Matthew extends not his rehearsal further then to Abraham, which is for the assurance of the promise for the Jews. Luke refers it even to Adam, whereby the Gentiles also are assured of the pro- mise, because they came of Adam, & are restored in the second Adam: Matthew counts by the legal descent: and Luke by the natural: finally both two speaking of the same persons apply unto them divers names.
26-^.
Or, Josecb.
29-^.
Or, Jesus.
29-^-1.
Or, Matiha.
31-^.
Or, Menna.
38-m.
Not that Adam was the son of God by generation, but by creation, in the which sense God also calls himself father, Deut. 32.6 & verses 18 & 19.