Luke 3:1 (WEB)
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,
Fathers and councils · 22
Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Luke describes the time by the reigning sovereigns. [Luke 3:1] But Matthew must be understood to speak of a wider space of time by the phrase ‘those days,’ than the fifteenth year of Tiberius.” — the author cites it
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“He records the manner in which he received the kingdom of the Jews by the will of his father Herod and by the decree of Cæsar Augustus, and how, after he had reigned ten years, he lost his kingdom, and his brothers Philip and Herod the younger, with Lysanias, still ruled their own tetrarchies.” — editor's note: Philip, a son of Herod the Great by his wife Cleopatra, was Tetrarch of Batanea, Trachonitis, Aurinitis, &c., from b.c. 4 to a.d. 34. He was distinguished for…
Read the whole comment“It was in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius, according to the evangelist, and in the fourth year of the governorship of Pontius Pilate, while Herod and Lysanias and Philip were ruling the rest of Judea,…” — editor's note: Luke iii. 1. Eusebius reckons the fifteenth year of Tiberius from 14 a.d., that is, from the time when he became sole emperor. There is a difference of opinion…
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“You, and others through your intervention, can apply to magistrates and to provincial governments, for all that may be necessary for this purpose; for they have received written injunctions to render zealous obedience to whatever your holiness may command.” — editor's note: ἡγεμονεύω, used in Luke ii. 2, of Quirinus, and iii. 1, of Pontius Pilate, but Theodoretus employs it and its correlatives of both civil and ecclesiastical…
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Augustine of Hippo
“Thence began foreign kings, from Herod.” — editor's note: Luke iii. 1.
Read the whole comment“…and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness, etc. The Apostle John, too, the most eminent of the four evangelists, after discoursing of the Word of God, who is also the Son, antecedent to all the ages of…” — editor's note: Luke iii. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“…has told us how, in the days of John’s baptizing, and at the time when the Lord, being then a grown man, was also baptized, Herod was tetrarch of Galilee; whereas Matthew tells us that the boy Jesus returned from Egypt after the death of Herod.” — editor's note: Luke iii. 1–21.
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Tertullian
“In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius (for such is Marcion’s proposition) he “came down to the Galilean city of Capernaum,” of course meaning from the heaven of the Creator, to which he had previously descended from his own.” — editor's note: Luke iii. 1 and iv. 31.
Read the whole comment“Chaps. i. and ii. he rejected entirely, and began at iii. 1, reading the opening verse thus: “In the xv. year of Tiberius Cæsar, God descended into Capernaum, a city of Galilee.”” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“And again in the same book: “And Jesus was coming to His baptism, being about thirty years old,” and so on.” — editor's note: Luke iii. 1, 2, 23.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
The time at which the forerunner of the Saviour received the word of preaching, is marked by the names of the Roman sovereign and of the princes of Judæa, as it follows: Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of…
Read the whole comment - A Greek expositorCatena Aurea on Luke
For the emperor Augustus being dead, from whom the Roman sovereigns obtained the name of “Augustus,” Tiberius being his successor in the monarchy, was now in the 15th year of his receiving the reins of government.
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In the word of prophecy, spoken to the Jews alone, the Jewish kingdom only is mentioned, as, The vision of Esaias, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. (Is. 1:1.) But in the Gospel which…
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Because the Jews were to be scattered for their crime of treachery, the Jewish kingdom was shut up into parts under several governors. According to that saying, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to…
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Pilate was sent in the twelfth year of Tiberius to take the government of the Jewish nation, and remained there for ten successive years, almost until the death of Tiberius. But Herod, and Philip, and Lysanias, were…
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Because John preached Him who was to be at the same time both King and Priest, Luke the Evangelist has marked the time of that preaching by the mention not only of Kings, but also of Priests. As it follows, Under the…
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Both Annas and Caiaphas, when John began his preaching, were the High Priests, but Annas held the office that year, Caiaphas the same year in which our Lord suffered on the cross. Three others had held the office in…
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The Son of God being about to gather together the Church, commences His work in His servant. And so it is well said, The word of the Lord came to John, that the Church should begin not from man, but from the Word.…
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The word of God here mentioned was a commandment, for the son of Zacharias came not of himself, but God moved him.
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Through the whole of the time until his shewing himself he was hid in the wilderness, that no suspicion might arise in men’s minds, that from his relation to Christ, and from his intercourse with Him from a child, he…
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Who also entered this life at once in the spirit and power of Elias, removed from the society of men, in uninterrupted contemplation of invisible things, that he might not, by becoming accustomed to the false notions…
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Again, the wilderness is the Church itself, for the barren has more children than she who has an husband. The word of the Lord came, that the earth which was before barren might bring forth fruit unto us.
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Cross-references · 27
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.7.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.7.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.7.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.7.
Cited together in Church History I.10.
Cited together in Church History I.10.
Cited together in Church History I.10.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.7.
Cited together in Gregory the Great on Luke 3:1–2 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Church History I.10.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History I.15.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History I.15.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.7.
Cited together in Origen on Luke 3:1–2 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.7.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.7.
Cited together in Church History I.9.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 3:1–3 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 3:1–3 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.7.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.7.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.7.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.7.
Cited together in Church History I.10.
Cited together in Church History I.10.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.7.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History I.15.