This episode looks at Luke 3:1, “In the fifteenth year 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 Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene.” Many ruler are mentioned here in order to set up a drastic contrast with the way of John in the wilderness and Christ in the rest of the book. May we follow their example rather than the pagan kings’.