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of the Father, only John the son of thunder theologized. However, the four with one mind fittingly wrote the account of the baptism, but the three indefinitely, while the divine Luke also specified the time, saying thus: In the 15th year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. And he went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. It is worthy, then, to admire the divine conciseness of the most wise evangelist, how in a few words he teaches things recorded by many for many, the time of the ruler, since every chronological calculation is taken either from the ancient patriarchs or from the famous kings who came after, the governor of Judea, Pilate, Herod and his brothers, with the local authority of each, the high priests Annas and Caiaphas. But since it was last and first of all to say in which year of the Lord's age it was, having stated the 15th year of Tiberius, he first introduces the baptist and the form of the baptism as a kind of foundation for the baptism according to Christ, like a kind of crown, adding at the same time also the genealogy from David according to Nathan, using a different order than he says. 388 The remaining years of the monarch Caesar Tiberius, in the year of the world 5520. Tiberius, having taken Drusus as partner in his rule, after a short time killed him as if by poison. The theater of Pompey was burned down. Tiberius sent out Pontius Pilate as governor of Judea. Philip the tetrarch, having rebuilt Paneas, named it Caesarea Philippi. The same man built the city of Julias. Herod built Tiberias in the name of Tiberius Caesar; the same man, Livias. The remaining years of Herod son of Herod

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and forerunner baptizing in water for repentance and preparing the way with the baptism in spirit for the proclamation of the gospel according to Christ, and honored by all as a prophet, Herod, being afraid, killed him thus, as Josephus says, but as the divine evangelist more accurately says, and as one who reproached him for the adultery with Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip.

YEARS OF THE WORLD 5533, 33 years of the divine incarnation, in this year 5533

from the creation of the world, which was the 33rd of the age according to the flesh of our Savior, and the 213th of the 11th period of the 532 cyclical years, in the 19th year of Tiberius Caesar, our Lord and 389 God Jesus Christ, the only-begotten by nature, the pre-eternal Son, consubstantial with the unbegotten Father and co-eternal with the consubstantial Spirit, the one of the uncreated and all-creating Trinity, after the divinely-fitting and ineffable birth from a virgin and the baptism by John in the Jordan and the countless divine signs and teachings and revelations of the mysteries of his heavenly kingdom, having fulfilled all the economy, went willingly to the saving passion according to the divine prophecies concerning him and suffers for us all the dreadful things concerning him, full of ineffable condescension, which have been concisely recorded by the holy evangelists, and the sinless one is crucified on the 27th of the month of Phamenoth, on the day of Preparation, that is, the 6th day of the week, March 23, at the 6th hour of the day, in the consulship of Nero for the third time and Valerius Messalla. and having been buried, he rises on the 3rd day, Phamenoth 29, that is March 25, as the Lord's day, the first of the week, was dawning, in the morning

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τοῦ πατρὸς Ἰωάννης μόνος ὁ υἱὸς τῆς βροντῆς ἐθεολόγησε. τὸν μέντοι περὶ τοῦ βαπτίσματος λόγον οἱ τέσσαρες ὁμοφρόνως συνέγραψαν εἰκότως, ἀλλ' οἱ μὲν τρεῖς ἀπροσδιορίστως, Λουκᾶς δὲ ὁ θεσπέσιος καὶ τὸν χρόνον ἠκρίβωσεν εἰπὼν οὕτως· Ἐν ἔτει ιεʹ τῆς ἡγεμονίας Τιβερίου Καίσαρος, ἡγεμονεύοντος Ποντίου Πιλάτου τῆς Ἰουδαίας καὶ τετραρχοῦντος τῆς Γαλιλαίας Ἡρώδου, Φιλίππου δὲ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ τετραρχοῦντος τῆς Ἰτουραίας καὶ Τραχωνίτιδος χώρας, καὶ Λυσανίου τῆς Ἀβιληνῆς, ἐπὶ ἀρχιερέως Ἄννα καὶ Καϊάφα, ἐγένετο ῥῆμα θεοῦ ἐπὶ Ἰωάννην τὸν τοῦ Ζαχαρίου υἱὸν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ. καὶ ἦλθεν εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν περίχωρον τοῦ Ἰορδάνου κηρύσσων βάπτισμα μετανοίας εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν. Ἄξιον μὲν οὖν θαυμάσαι τὴν θείαν τοῦ σοφωτάτου εὐαγγελιστοῦ συν τομίαν, πῶς ἐν ὀλίγαις λέξεσι τὰ διὰ πολλῶν τοῖς πολλοῖς ἱστορούμενα διδάσκει, τὸν χρόνον τοῦ κρατοῦντος, ἐπεὶ καὶ πᾶσα χρονικὴ ψῆφος ἢ ἐκ τῶν πάλαι γενεαρχῶν ἢ ἐκ τῶν ἔπειτα βασιλέων ἐπισήμων λαμβάνεται, τὸν ἡγεμόνα τῆς Ἰουδαίας Πιλᾶτον, Ἡρώδην καὶ τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς αὐτοῦ, μετὰ τῆς ἑκάστου τοπικῆς ἀρχῆς, τοὺς ἀρχιερατεύοντας Ἄνναν καὶ Καϊάφαν. Ἐπειδὴ δὲ πάντων ἔσχατον ἦν καὶ πρῶτον εἰπεῖν κατὰ ποῖον ἔτος τῆς δεσποτικῆς ἡλικίας ἦν, τὸ ιεʹ ἔτος Τιβερίου φράσας, πρότερον τὸν βαπτι στὴν καὶ τὸ εἶδος τοῦ βαπτίσματος ὅσον ὑπόβαθρον τοῦ κατὰ Χριστὸν βαπτίσματος ὥσπερ τινὰ στέφανον εἰσάγει, τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον προσθεὶς καὶ τὴν κατὰ Νάθαν ἀπὸ ∆αβὶδ γενεαλογίαν ἄλλῃ τάξει χρώμενος ἤ φησι. 388 Τὰ ὑπόλοιπα τοῦ μονάρχου Καίσαρος Τιβερίου, τοῦ κόσμου ἔτη εφκʹ Τιβέριος ∆ροῦσον τῆς ἀρχῆς κοινωνὸν προσλαβόμενος μετὰ μικρὸν ὡς φαρμακὸν ἀνεῖλε. Τὸ Πομπηίου θέατρον ἐνεπρήσθη. Τιβέριος Πόντιον Πιλᾶτον ἡγεμόνα τῆς Ἰουδαίας ἐξέπεμψε. Φίλιππος τετράρχης Παναιάδα ἀνακτίσας Καισάρειαν Φιλίππου προσ ωνόμασεν. Ὁ αὐτὸς πόλιν Ἰουλιάδα ἔκτισεν. Ἡρώδης ἔκτισε Τιβεριάδα εἰς ὄνομα Τιβερίου Καίσαρος, ὁ αὐτὸς Λιβιάδα. Τὰ ὑπόλοιπα Ἡρώδου υἱοῦ Ἡρώδου

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καὶ πρόδρομον βαπτίζοντα ἐν ὕδατι εἰς μετά νοιαν καὶ τῷ ἐν πνεύματι βαπτίσματι προοδοποιοῦντα τὸ τοῦ κατὰ Χρι στὸν εὐαγγελίου κήρυγμα παρὰ πάντων τε ὡς προφήτην τιμώμενον φο βούμενος Ἡρώδης ἀνεῖλεν οὕτως, ὡς Ἰώσηππός φησιν, ὡς δὲ ὁ θεῖος εὐαγγελιστὴς ἀκριβέστερόν φησι, καὶ ὡς ἐλέγχοντα αὐτὸν ἐπὶ μοιχείᾳ τῆς γυναικὸς Φιλίππου τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἡρωδιάδος.

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ἀπὸ κτίσεως κόσμου, ὅπερ τῆς κατὰ σάρκα τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ἡλικίας λγʹ ὑπῆρχε, τῆς δὲ ιαʹ περιόδου τῶν φλβʹ κυκλι κῶν ἐτῶν σιγʹ, κατὰ τὸ ιθʹ ἔτος Τιβερίου Καίσαρος, ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν καὶ 389 θεὸς Ἰησοῦς ὁ Χριστός, ὁ φύσει μονογενής, ὁ ὁμοούσιος τοῦ ἀγεννήτου πατρὸς υἱὸς προαιώνιος καὶ συναΐδιος τῷ ὁμοουσίῳ πνεύματι, ὁ εἷς τῆς ἀκτίστου καὶ παντουργοῦ τριάδος, μετὰ τὴν ἐκ παρθένου θεοπρεπῆ καὶ ἀπόρρητον γέννησιν καὶ τὸ ὑπὸ Ἰωάννου ἐν Ἰορδάνῃ βάπτισμα καὶ τὰς ἀπείρους θεοσημείας καὶ διδασκαλίας καὶ ἀποκαλύψεις τῶν μυστηρίων τῆς οὐρανίου βασιλείας αὐτοῦ πᾶσαν πληρώσας οἰκονομίαν ἐπὶ τὸ σω τήριον πάθος προῄει ἑκουσίως κατὰ τὰς περὶ αὐτοῦ θείας προρρήσεις καὶ πάσχει δι' ἡμᾶς ὅσα περὶ αὐτοῦ φρικτὰ καὶ ἀπορρήτου συγκαταβάσεως γέμοντα τοῖς ἱεροῖς εὐαγγελισταῖς ἐπιτόμως ἱστόρηται, καὶ σταυροῦται ὁ ἀναμάρτητος τῇ κζʹ τοῦ Φαμενὼθ μηνὸς ἡμέρᾳ παρασκευῇ ἤτοι ςʹ σαβ βάτου, Μαρτίου κγʹ, ὥρᾳ ἡμερινῇ ςʹ, ἐν ὑπατείᾳ Νέρωνος τὸ τρίτον καὶ Βαλερίου Μενσάλα. καὶ ταφεὶς ἀνίσταται τῇ γʹ ἡμέρᾳ, Φαμενὼθ κθʹ ἤτοι Μαρτίου κεʹ, ἐπιφωσκούσης κυριακῆς μιᾶς σαββάτων, πρωὶ