NEW TESTAMENT

Luke 3:1

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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,

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Verse 1. Pilate being governor of Judea, lit. procurator; that is with a subordination to the president of Syria. Witham.—This was Herod Antipas, son of Herod the great, mentioned in Calmet. 1, verse 5.

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