# Luke 3:16

> John answered all of them: “I baptize you with water, but One more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

— Luke 3:16, Berean Standard Bible

## When

- AD 28-29 (dated by the text itself)
- Date source: Luke 3:1-2 dates itself by the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar and names Pilate, Herod, Philip, Lysanias, Annas and Caiaphas.

## Who ruled

- **Tiberius**, emperor of Rome, AD 14-37 · Source: Tacitus, Annals I-VI; Suetonius, Tiberius
- **Lysanias**, tetrarch of Abilene, AD 26-29 · Source: Luke 3:1. The Lysanias known to Josephus (Antiquities XIV.13) was executed in 36 BC, and the identity of the tetrarch of Abilene is debated; inscriptions from Abila point to a second Lysanias.
- **Pontius Pilate**, prefect of Judea, AD 26-36 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVIII.3-4; Tacitus, Annals XV.44; the Caesarea inscription, which carries his name and office in stone
- **Herod Antipas**, tetrarch of Galilee, 4 BC – AD 39 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVII.8-XVIII.7
- **Philip**, tetrarch of Ituraea, 4 BC – AD 34 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVII.8, XVIII.4
- **Caiaphas**, high priest, AD 18-36 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVIII.2.2 and XVIII.4.3; the ossuary of "Joseph, son of Caiaphas," found in Jerusalem in 1990

## See also

- Matthew 3:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/matthew/3/11
- Acts 1:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/1/5
- Acts 11:15-16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/11/15
- John 1:33 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/john/1/33
- John 1:26 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/john/1/26
- Joel 2:28-29 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/2/28
- Acts 19:4-5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/19/4
- Acts 2:3-4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/2/3

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/luke/3/16
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/luke/3
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).