Luke 3:1 (KJV)

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Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa 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

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Tiberius Cesar. Lu 2:1

Pontius Pilate. Lu 23:1-4 Lu 23:24 Ge 49:10 Ac 4:27 Ac 23:26 Ac 24:27 Ac 26:30

Herod. Lu 3:19 Lu 9:7 Lu 23:6-11

his. Mt 14:3 Mr 6:17

23 The age and genealogy of Christ from Joseph upwards. A.M. 4030. A.D. 26. Ituraea.Ituraea was a province of Syria east of Jordan, now called Djedour, according to Burckhardt, and comprising all the flat country south of Djebel Kessoue as far as Nowa, east of Djebel el Sheikh, or mount Hermon, and west of the Hadj road. Trachonitis, according to Strabo and Ptolemy, comprehended all the uneven country on the east of Auranitis, now Haouran, from near Damascus to Bozra, now called El Ledja and Djebel Haouran. Abilene was a district in the valley of Lebanon, so called from Abila its chief town, eighteen miles N. of Damascus, according to Antoninus.

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