According to Luke, he began preaching "in the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee..."
Luka u tsale leswaku swiendlakalo sweswo swi endleke "elembeni ra vu-15 ra ku fuma ka Tiberiyo Khezari [29 C.E.], loko Pontiyo Pilato a ri ndhuna-nkulu ya Yudiya, naswona Heroda a ri mufumi wa muganga wa Galeliya."