And his parents went up every year to Jerusalem, at the feast of passover.

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,

to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

But he answered and said to him, Sir, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and throw in manure;