my Father's business?"
002:050 But they did not understand the significance of these words.
002:051 Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was
always obedient to them; but His mother carefully treasured
up all these incidents in her memory.
002:052 And as Jesus grew older He gained in both wisdom and stature,
and in favour with God and man.
003:001 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,
Pontius Pilate being Governor of Judaea, Herod Tetrarch of Galilee,
his brother Philip Tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis,
and Lysanias Tetrarch of Abilene,
003:002 during the High-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, a message
from God came to John, the son of Zechariah, in the Desert.
003:003 John went into all the district about the Jordan proclaiming
a baptism of the penitent for the forgiveness of sins;
003:004 as it is written in the book of the prophet Isaiah, "The voice of
one crying aloud! `In the Desert prepare ye a road for the Lord:
make His highway straight.
003:005 Every ravine shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill
levelled down, the crooked places shall be turned into
straight roads, and the rugged ways into smooth;
003:006 and then shall all mankind see God's salvation.'"
003:007 Accordingly John used to say to the crowds who came out to be
baptized by him, "O vipers' brood, who has warned you to flee
from the coming wrath?
003:008 Live lives which shall prove your change of heart; and do not
begin to say to yourselves, `We have Abraham as our forefather,'
for I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham
from these stones.
003:009 And even now the axe is lying at the root of the trees,