Lucas 3

1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, 2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness. 3 He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins. 4 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,

"The voice of one crying in the wilderness,

‘Make ready the way of the Lord.

Make his paths straight.

5 Every valley will be filled.

Every mountain and hill will be brought low.

The crooked will become straight,

and the rough ways smooth.

6 All flesh will see God’s salvation.’"✝3:6 Isaiah 40:3-5

7 He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones! 9 Even now the ax also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire."

10 The multitudes asked him, "What then must we do?"

11 He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise."

12 Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what must we do?"

13 He said to them, "Collect no more than that which is appointed to you."

14 Soldiers also asked him, saying, "What about us? What must we do?"

He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages."

15 As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ, 16 John answered them all, "I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire. 17 His winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

18 Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people, 19 but Herod the tetrarch,*3:19 a tetrarch is one of four governors of a province being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s*3:19 TR reads "brother Philip’s" instead of "brother’s" wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done, 20 added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.

21 Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized and was praying. The sky was opened, 22 and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying "You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased."

23 Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli, 24 the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, 25 the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, 26 the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Joseph, the son of Judah, 27 the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri, 28 the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er, 29 the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, 30 the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim, 31 the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David, 32 the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, 33 the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram,*3:33 NU reads "Admin, the son of Arni" instead of "Aram" the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, 34 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, 35 the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, 36 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, 37 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, 38 the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

Te Kauwhautanga a Hoani Kaiiriiri

1 Nā, i te tekau mā rima o ngā tau o te rangatiratanga o Taipiria Hīhā, i a Ponotia Pirato e kāwana ana i Hūria, i a Herora e tetaraki ana i Karirī, i tōna teina hoki, i a Piripi, e tetaraki ana i Ituria, i te whenua hoki o Tarakonaiti, ko Raihānia, e tetaraki ana i Apirini; 2 ko Anaha rāua ko Kaiapa ngā tohunga nui, ka puta te kupu a te Atua ki a Hoani tama a Hakaraia ki te koraha. 3 Nā, ka haere mai ia ki ngā wāhi katoa e pātata ana ki Horano, ka kauwhau i te iriiri rīpenetā hei murunga hara.

4 I pērā anō ia me te mea i tuhituhia ki te pukapuka o ngā kōrero a Ihāia poropiti:

"He reo nō tētahi i te koraha e karanga ana:

‘Whakapaia te huarahi o te Ariki,

whakatikaia ōna ara!

5 Ka whakakīia ngā awaawa katoa,

ka whakahoroa ngā maunga me ngā pukepuke katoa.

E meinga hoki kia tika ngā wāhi kōpikopiko,

ko ngā wāhi taratara hei ara māeneene.

6 Ā, e kite ngā kikokiko katoa i te whakaoranga a te Atua!’ "

7 Nā reira, ka mea ia ki ngā mano i haere kia iriiria e ia, "E te uri nākahi, nā wai koutou i whakamahara kia rere i te riri meāke puta mai? 8 Nā, whakaputaina ngā hua e rite ana ki ō te rīpenetā; kei anga kei mea i roto i a koutou, ‘Ko Āperahama tō tātou matua’; ko tāku kupu hoki tēnei ki a koutou, e āhei ana anō i te Atua te whakaara tamariki ake mā Āperahama i roto i ēnei kōhatu. 9 Nā, ināianei anō kei te pā te toki ki te pakiaka o ngā rākau; ki te kāhore tētahi rākau e hua i te hua pai, ka tuaina, ka makā ki te ahi."

10 Nā, ka ui ngā mano ki a ia, ka mea, "Me aha rā mātou?"

11 Nā, ka whakahoki ia, ka mea ki a rātou, "Ko te tangata i ngā koti e rua, kia hoatu ki te tangata kāhore ōna; me te tangata he kai tāna, kia pērā anō."

12 Nā, ka haere mai hoki ngā pupirikana kia iriiria ka mea ki a ia, "E te kaiwhakaako, me aha mātou?"

13 Ka mea ia ki a rātou, "Kei nui ake i ngā mea i whakaritea mā koutou tā koutou e tango ai."

14 Ka ui anō hoki ngā hōia ki a ia, ka mea, "Me aha hoki mātou?"

Nā, ko tāna meatanga ki a rātou, "Kaua e tūkinotia tētahi, kaua e muru noa i tētahi mea; kāti anō mā koutou ko ō koutou utu."

15 Nā, i te iwi e tatari ana e whakaaroaro katoa ana i roto i ō rātou ngākau ki a Hoani, mehemea ko te Karaiti ia. 16 Ka whakahoki a Hoani, ka mea ki a rātou katoa, "Ko ahau nei, he iriiri tāku i a koutou ki te wai; kei te haere mai ia tētahi he kaha rawa ake i ahau, e kore ahau e tau hei wewete i te here o ōna hū. Māna koutou e iriiri ki te Wairua Tapu, ki te kāpura. 17 Ko tāna mea tahi kei tōna ringa, hei tino tahi i tāna patunga wīti, hei kohi hoki i te wīti ki roto ki tāna whare wīti; ko te pāpapa ia e tahuna ki te kāpura e kore e tineia." 18 He maha atu anō āna kupu whakahau i kauwhau ai ia i te rongopai ki te iwi.

19 Otirā, nā tōna riringa i a Herora tetaraki mō Herōriaha, mō te wahine a tōna tuakana, a Piripi, ā, mō ngā kino katoa hoki i meinga e Herora; 20 ka āpititia atu e Herora tēnei ki runga i ērā katoa, tūtakina ana e ia a Hoani ki te whare herehere.

Te Iriiringa o Īhu

21 Nā, ka poto katoa te iwi te iriiri, i a Īhu kua oti te iriiri, ā, i a ia e īnoi ana, ka tuwhera te rangi, 22 ā, ka heke iho te Wairua Tapu, ka heke tinana iho, ānō he kūkupa, ki runga ki a ia, ā, ka puta mai he reo nō te rangi, e mea ana, "Ko koe tāku Tama i aroha ai, tāku i āhuareka ai."

Te Whakapapa o Īhu

23 Nā, ko Īhu, i a ia i tīmata ai ki te whakaako, kei te toru tekau ōna tau, ā, ki tā te tangata kī, he tama ia nā Hōhepa tama a Heri, 24 ko ia he tama nā Matata, tama a Rīwai, tama a Mereki, tama a Iana, tama a Hōhepa, 25 tama a Matatiaha, tama a Āmoho, tama a Nahumu, tama a Eheri, tama a Nakai, 26 tama a Māta, tama a Matatiaha, tama a Hemei, tama a Hōhepa, tama a Hūrā, 27 tama a Hoana, tama a Reha, tama a Herupapera, tama a Haratiera, tama a Neri, 28 tama a Mereki, tama a Ari, tama a Kohama, tama a Eremorama, tama a Ere, 29 tama a Hohe, tama a Eriētere, tama a Horimi, tama a Matata, tama a Rīwai, 30 tama a Himiona, tama a Hūrā, tama a Hōhepa, tama a Honana, tama a Eriakimi, 31 tama a Merea, tama a Menana, tama a Matata, tama a Nātana, tama a Rāwiri, 32 tama a Hehe, tama a Ōpere, tama a Poaha, tama a Haramono, tama a Nāhona, 33 tama a Aminarapa, tama a Arame, tama a Heteromo, tama a Parete, tama a Hūrā, 34 tama a Hākopa, tama a Īhaka, tama a Āperahama, tama a Tera, tama a Nahora, 35 tama a Haruku, tama a Rakau, tama a Pereke, tama a Ēpere, tama a Haraha, 36 tama a Kainana, tama a Arapahata, tama a Hema, tama a Noa, tama a Rameka, 37 tama a Matuhara, tama a Ēnoka, tama a Iarere, tama a Marerēre, tama a Kainana, 38 tama a Ēnoha, tama a Heta, tama a Ārama, a te tama a te Atua.