page_title: Luke 3
section_title: The ancestry of Jesus
hierarchical_section_title: Luke 3 / The ancestry of Jesus
context_page_description: Luke 3 is the third chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It contains an account of the preaching of John the Baptist as well as a genealogy of Jesus. The Expositor's Greek Testament states that in this chapter "the ministry of the new era opens".
caption: A part of Luke's genealogy of Jesus (Luke 3:23-26), from the Book of Kells, transcribed by Celtic monks c. 800
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