{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/jb/jb08.htm","path":"bib/jb/jb08.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/jb/jb08.htm","text":"The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth (the Jefferson Bible), by Thomas Jefferson, [1902]\nJohn Baptizes in Jordan.\nNOW in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,\n2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.\n3 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.\n4 And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.\n5 \u00b6 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan;\n6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.","title":"The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth (the Jefferson Bible): IV. John Baptizes in Jordan","type":"page"}