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


In Context

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

2 Annas and Caiaphas being chief priests — there came a word of God unto John the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness,

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

4 as it hath been written in the scroll of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, 'A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths;

5 every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straightness, and the rough become 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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