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Luke 3:23

And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,

KJV

Καὶ αὐτὸς ἦν Ἰησοῦς ἀρχόμενος ὡσεὶ ἐτῶν τριάκοντα, ὢν υἱός, ὡς ἐνομίζετο, Ἰωσὴφ τοῦ Ἡλεὶ

Greek NT

Et ipse Jesus erat incipiens quasi annorum triginta, ut putabatur, filius Joseph, qui fuit Heli, qui fuit Mathat,

Vulgate

And Jesus himself, when he beganto teach, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

ASV

And Jesus himself was beginning about the age of thirty years: being (as it was supposed) the son of Joseph, who was of Heli, who was of Mathat,

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
νομίζω
nomizo
verb · 15×
τριάκοντα
triakonta
adjective · 11×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
ἄρχομαι
archomai
verb · 85×
ἔτος
etos
noun · 49×
Ἡλί
eli
noun · 1×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
Ἰωσήφ
ioseph
noun · 35×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὡς
os
adverb · 502×
ὡσεί
osei
adverb · 20×

Textual variants

3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: ἦν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἦν | RP: + ὁ
  • ἦν — SBLGNT
  • ἦν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + ὁ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἀρχόμενος ὡσεὶ ἐτῶν τριάκοντα | WH/Treg/NIV: ἀρχόμενος ὡσεὶ ἐτῶν τριάκοντα | RP: ὡσεὶ ἐτῶν τριάκοντα ἀρχόμενος
  • ἀρχόμενος ὡσεὶ ἐτῶν τριάκοντα — SBLGNT
  • ἀρχόμενος ὡσεὶ ἐτῶν τριάκοντα — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ὡσεὶ ἐτῶν τριάκοντα ἀρχόμενος — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: υἱός ὡς ἐνομίζετο , | WH/Treg/NIV: υἱός ὡς ἐνομίζετο | RP: ὡς ἐνομίζετο υἱός
  • υἱός ὡς ἐνομίζετο , — SBLGNT
  • υἱός ὡς ἐνομίζετο — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ὡς ἐνομίζετο υἱός — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§535Jesus' public life begins with his baptism by John in the Jordan.228 John preaches "a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins".229 A crowd of sinners230 - tax collectors and soldiers, Pharisees and Sadducees, and prostitutes - come to be baptized by him. "Then Jesus appears." the Baptist hesitates, but Jesus insists and receives baptism. Then the Holy Spirit, in the f…
Absurd ideas of the disciples of Valentinus as to the origin, name, order, and conjugal productions of their fancied æons, with the passages of Scripture which they adapt to their opinions. 1. They maintain, then, that in the invisible and ineffable heights above there exists a certain perfect, pre-existent æon, whom they call Proarche, Propator, and Bythus, and describe as bei…
The thirty æons are not typified by the fact that Christ was baptized in His thirtieth year: He did not suffer in the twelfth month after His baptism, but was more than fifty years old when He died. 1. I have shown that the number thirty fails them in every respect; too few æons, as they represent them, being at one time found within the Pleroma, and then again too many [to cor…
Concerning the four Gospels which alone are uncontroverted in the Church of God under heaven, I have learned by tradition that the Gospel according to Matthew, who was at one time a publican and afterwards an Apostle of Jesus Christ, was written first; and that he composed it in the Hebrew tongue and published it for the converts from Judaism. The second written was that accord…
Chapter 1.— Signs, Their Nature and Variety. 1. As when I was writing about things, I introduced the subject with a warning against attending to anything but what they are in themselves, even though they are signs of something else, so now, when I come in its turn to discuss the subject of signs, I lay down this direction, not to attend to what they are in themselves, but to th…
1. Matthew and Luke in their gospels have given us the genealogy of Christ differently, and many suppose that they are at variance with one another. Since as a consequence every believer, in ignorance of the truth, has been zealous to invent some explanation which shall harmonize the two passages, permit us to subjoin the account of the matter which has come down to us, and whi…

Cross-references

  • 2Sam 5:4 — David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
  • Acts 1:1 — The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
  • Acts 1:1 — The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
  • Ezek 1:1 — Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of Go
  • Gen 41:46 — And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
  • John 1:45 — Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
  • John 6:42 — And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?
  • Luke 2:4 — And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
  • Luke 4:22 — And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?
  • Mark 6:3 — Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
  • Matt 1:1 — The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
  • Matt 1:16 — And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
  • Matt 1:16 — And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
  • Matt 4:17 — From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
  • Matt 13:55 — Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
  • Matt 13:55 — Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
  • Num 4:3 — From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
  • Num 4:3 — From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
  • Rom 9:5 — Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.