Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zachariah in the wilderness.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
S. Luke passes from the twelfth year of Christ to His thirtieth, when, after the manner of the Hebrews , He began to discharge His Office of Teacher and Redeemer and to preach publicly.
In the fifteenth year. Augustus reigned for fifty-seven years from the death of Julius Caesar, and died on the19th of August; so that the last year of Augustus was not a complete year, and, consequently, the first of Tiberius only consisted of five months, from August to January, from which the Romans began the year. This Tiberius, having heard wonderful things through Pilate of the miracles and the sanctity of Christ, wished to place Him among the gods, but the senate opposed him, because he had attempted to do it without consulting them (see Commentary on S. Matthew 27:24).
Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa. Archeläus, son of the Infanticide Herod, was exiled by Augustus for his ...
Under the high priests, Annas and Caiphas. There was properly but one high priest at a time; and Caiphas had this office and title all the ten years that Pilate governed Judea. See Josephus, lib. xviii. Antiq. chap. iii.
In these short notes I shall not pretend to examine the chronological difficulties, as to Christ's birth, death (Witham)
