Astrophile
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As a fuller picture emerges, it is quite evident that Luke, and the other Gospel writers, were providing a highly accurate account of the historical 'markers'. Luke, whose account provides an order of events, supplies us with essential information with which to cross-reference. In Luke 3:1,2 he writes, 'Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests ..' [Caiaphas, called Joseph Caiaphas, is said to have been high priest from 18-36 CE]
Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene was executed by Mark Antony in 33 BC - Lysanias - Wikipedia. He was not contemporary with Jesus or John the Baptist.