Luke 3:1 - Commentary

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Text -- Luke 3:1 (NET)

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The Ministry of John the Baptist

3:1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,

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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:

· Abilene a small mountainous region about eighteen miles northwest of Damascus

· Caesar a title held by Roman emperors

· Galilee the region of Palestine north of Sameria and west of the upper Jordan River,a region west of Lake Galilee and north of the Jezreel Valley

· Herod son of Antipater; king over Judea when Christ was born,a son of Herod the Great,a grandson of Herod the Great and son of Aristobulus and Berenice

· Ituraea a small province on the northwest border of Palestine by the base of Mount Hermon

· Judea a region that roughly corresponded to the earlier kingdom of Judah

· Lysanias one of four men who ruled over 4 sections of Isreal

· Philip a man who was one of the twelve apostles,a son of Herod the Great; husband of Herodias; ruler of Iturea and Traconitis north and west of Galilee,a man who was one of the seven chosen to serve tables at the church at Jerusalem

· Pilate the Roman governor of Judea who allowed Jesus to be crucified

· Pontius Pilate the Roman governor of Judea who allowed Jesus to be crucified

· Tiberius Caesar the man who succeeded Augustus Caesar as the Roman emperor

· Trachonitis the district around the town of Trachon, east of Galilee and south of Damascus (IBD)