3And he came into all the district round the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins,


In Context

1 Now in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Ituraea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

2 in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came upon John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

3 And he came into all the district round the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins,

4 as it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet: Voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.

5 Every gorge shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked places shall become a straight path, and the rough places smooth ways,

Luke 3:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:3And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:3He went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:3And he came into all the country about the Jordan, preaching the baptism of penance for the remission of sins;

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:3And he came into all the region round about the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:3And he came into all the region round about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance, for the remission of sins;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3and he came to all the region round the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of reformation — to remission of sins,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:3And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;