Luke 3:2 Cross References
Luke 3:2
2: Annas and Caiaphas were the high priests. At this time a message from God came to John son of Zechariah, who was living out in the wilderness.
Luke 1:80
- John grew up and became strong in spirit. Then he lived out in the wilderness until he began his public ministry to Israel.
Acts 4:6
- Annas the high priest was there, along with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and other relatives of the high priest.
John 18:24
- Then Annas bound Jesus and sent him to Caiaphas, the high priest.
Micah 1:1
- The LORD gave these messages to Micah of Moresheth during the years when Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah. The messages concerned both Samaria and Jerusalem, and they came to Micah in the form of visions.
Jonah 1:1
- The LORD gave this message to Jonah son of Amittai:
Zephaniah 1:1
- The LORD gave these messages to Zephaniah when Josiah son of Amon was king of Judah. Zephaniah was the son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah.
Jeremiah 2:1
- The LORD gave me another message. He said,
Jeremiah 1:2
- The LORD first gave messages to Jeremiah during the thirteenth year of King Josiah's reign in Judah.
Matthew 26:3
- At that same time the leading priests and other leaders were meeting at the residence of Caiaphas, the high priest,
John 1:23
- John replied in the words of Isaiah: "I am a voice shouting in the wilderness, 'Prepare a straight pathway for the Lord's coming!'"
Isaiah 40:3
- Listen! I hear the voice of someone shouting, "Make a highway for the LORD through the wilderness. Make a straight, smooth road through the desert for our God.
Matthew 11:7
- When John's disciples had gone, Jesus began talking about him to the crowds. "Who is this man in the wilderness that you went out to see? Did you find him weak as a reed, moved by every breath of wind?
John 11:49
- And one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, "How can you be so stupid?
- Why should the whole nation be destroyed? Let this one man die for the people."
- This prophecy that Jesus should die for the entire nation came from Caiaphas in his position as high priest. He didn't think of it himself; he was inspired to say it.
John 18:13
- First they took him to Annas, the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.
- Caiaphas was the one who had told the other Jewish leaders, "Better that one should die for all."
Luke 3:3
- Then John went from place to place on both sides of the Jordan River, preaching that people should be baptized to show that they had turned from their sins and turned to God to be forgiven.
- Isaiah had spoken of John when he said, "He is a voice shouting in the wilderness: 'Prepare a pathway for the Lord's coming! Make a straight road for him!
- Fill in the valleys, and level the mountains and hills! Straighten the curves, and smooth out the rough places!
- And then all people will see the salvation sent from God.'"
- Here is a sample of John's preaching to the crowds that came for baptism: "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to flee God's coming judgment?
Hosea 1:1
- The LORD gave these messages to Hosea son of Beeri during the years when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah, and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.
- When the LORD first began speaking to Israel through Hosea, he said to him, "Go and marry a prostitute, so some of her children will be born to you from other men. This will illustrate the way my people have been untrue to me, openly committing adultery against the LORD by worshiping other gods."
Matthew 3:1
- In those days John the Baptist began preaching in the Judean wilderness. His message was,
- "Turn from your sins and turn to God, because the Kingdom of Heaven is near. "
- Isaiah had spoken of John when he said, "He is a voice shouting in the wilderness: 'Prepare a pathway for the Lord's coming! Make a straight road for him!'"
- John's clothes were woven from camel hair, and he wore a leather belt; his food was locusts and wild honey.
- People from Jerusalem and from every section of Judea and from all over the Jordan Valley went out to the wilderness to hear him preach.
Luke 1:59
- When the baby was eight days old, all the relatives and friends came for the circumcision ceremony. They wanted to name him Zechariah, after his father.
- But Elizabeth said, "No! His name is John!"
- "What?" they exclaimed. "There is no one in all your family by that name."
- So they asked the baby's father, communicating to him by making gestures.
- He motioned for a writing tablet, and to everyone's surprise he wrote, "His name is John!"
Ezekiel 1:3
- The LORD gave a message to me, Ezekiel son of Buzi, a priest, there beside the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians, and I felt the hand of the LORD take hold of me.
Mark 1:3
- He is a voice shouting in the wilderness: 'Prepare a pathway for the Lord's coming! Make a straight road for him!'"
- This messenger was John the Baptist. He lived in the wilderness and was preaching that people should be baptized to show that they had turned from their sins and turned to God to be forgiven.
- People from Jerusalem and from all over Judea traveled out into the wilderness to see and hear John. And when they confessed their sins, he baptized them in the Jordan River.