This is part of a year-long reading of the Bible chronologically in a harmonized format.

Job 15:1 - 16:22

- Eliphaz accuses Job of impiety and empty words, arguing that no one, not even the heavens, is pure in God's sight and that the wicked suffer torment.

- Job responds by calling his friends miserable comforters, describes God's attacks on him, and pleads for a mediator while expressing despair over his suffering.

Luke 3:1-2

- In the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar's reign, amid listed Roman and Jewish leaders, the word of God comes to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

- This marks the beginning of John's prophetic ministry preparing for the Lord.

John 1:19-28

- Jewish leaders question John the Baptist about his identity; he denies being the Messiah, Elijah, or the Prophet.

- John declares himself the voice crying in the wilderness to prepare the way of the Lord and points to one greater coming after him whose sandal he is unworthy to untie.

Matthew 3:2-12

- John preaches repentance because the kingdom of heaven is near, warning against relying on Abrahamic descent and urging fruit worthy of repentance.

- He describes the coming one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire, separating wheat from chaff in judgment.