Luke 3:21–23 (Title) The precise duration of this early ministry cannot be determined. Our Lord’s baptism must have been at least two months before the Passover, and may have been some weeks or months earlier. Then the highly successful ministry in Judea after the Passover must have lasted several months (John 3:22; 4:1–3). If the “yet four months” in John 4:35 be understood to be not a common saying as to the usual interval between seedtime and harvest, but a statement that it was then just four