1. In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar – when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene –
2. during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.