during (A)the high priesthood of Annas and (B)Caiaphas, (C)the word of God came to (D)John the son of Zechariah in (E)the wilderness. And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming (F)a baptism of repentance (G)for the forgiveness of sins. As it is written in (H)the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,

(I)“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
(J)‘Prepare the way of the Lord,[a]
    make his paths straight.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 3:4 Or crying, Prepare in the wilderness the way of the Lord

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