AND in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being procurator of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Ituria and the country of Trachonitis, and Lysanias being tetrarch of Abilene,

to proclaim an acceptable year of the Lord.

And he answered and said to him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I dig about it, and put on manure;