1. And in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar--Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother, tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene--
2. Annas and Caiaphas being chief priests--there came a word of God unto John the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness,