The Messiah’s Herald
1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, 3:1 Mt 27:2; Lk 13:1; 23:1–24,52; Ac 3:13; 4:27; 13:28; 1Tm 6:13 Herod was tetrarch 3:1 Or ruler of Galilee, 3:1 Mt 14:1 his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, 2 during the high priesthood of Annas 3:2 Jn 18:13,24; Ac 4:6 and Caiaphas, 3:2 Mt 26:3 God’s word came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. 3:2–10 Mt 3:1–10; Mk 1:3–5