Jesus was baptized probably in AD 29, possibly AD 28, when he was about thirty years old. Luke dates the start of John the Baptist’s preaching to the fifteenth year of the emperor Tiberius (Luke 3:1) and gives Jesus’ age just after the baptism (Luke 3:23). No Gospel records the day, the month or the season. Luke dates John’s preaching the way a historian would. He names the emperor in Rome, the governor of Judea, three rulers of the lands…

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