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12th January: Lectionary: Jesus is baptised

Kim Dunning continues our Lectionary series with “Jesus is baptised” looking at Luke 3: 1-3, 15-16, 21-22.

Luke 3: 1-3, 15-16, 21-22

John the Baptist Prepares the Way

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar—when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene— during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. He went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

The Baptism and Genealogy of Jesus

21 When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened 22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 3:16 Or in
  2. Luke 3:16 Or in
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