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Luke 3:13
And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
EXACT - Demand, or take, no more. THAN THAT WHICH IS APPOINTED - That is, by the government. John does not condemn the office, or say that the employment should be forsaken. Though it was hated by the...
II. THE BEGINNINGS OF HIS MINISTRY -- CHAPTER 3-4:13 CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The Ministry of John the Baptist. (Luke 3:1 .)_ 2. His Testimony to Christ and his Imprisonment. (Luke 3:15 .) 3. The Baptism of...
JOHN THE BAPTIST. Mark 1:1 *, Matthew 3:1 *. also Mark 6:17 *, Matthew 14:3 *. Lk. now (to...
THE COURIER OF THE KING (Luke 3:1-6)...
To the crowds who came out to be baptized by him, John used to say, "You spawn of vipers, who put it into your heads to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruits to match repentance. Do not begin to...
NO. nothing. Greek. _laden._ THAN. beside. Greek. _ para_. App-104....
_Exact no more_ This was their habitual sin, and later historians often allude to the _immodestia_(i. e. the extravagant greed) of the publicans and their cruel exactions (Caes. _Bell. Civ._iii. 32)....
Answer of the Baptist to the Multitude 10. _What shall we do then_?] Rather, WHAT THEN ARE WE TO DO? Compare the question of the multitude to Peter on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:37) and that of the...
ΜΗΔῈΝ ΠΛΈΟΝ … ΠΡΆΣΣΕΤΕ. The verb πράσσω (like πρᾶξις, see Luke 23:51; Colossians 3:9, &c.) is often used in a bad sense (Luke 23:41; John 3:2, &c.). The...
ANSWER OF THE BAPTIST TO THE MULTITUDE...
Ver 10. And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? 11. He answered and said to them, He that has two coats, let him impart to him that has none; and he that has meat, let him do likewise...
ΔΙΑΤΕΤΑΓΜΈΝΟΝ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΔΙΑΤΆΣΣΩ (G1299) повелевать, предписывать. Part, используется как _subst._ в сравнительном обороте, ΠΡΆΣΣΕΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΠΡΆΣΣΩ (G4238) делать, вымога...
DISCOURSE: 1482 PRACTICAL DUTIES ENFORCED Luke 3:10. And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Ministry of John the Baptist Scripture_ Luke 3:1-20 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetra...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 The Baptizer's Message (Luke 3:7-14) 7 He said therefore to the multitudes that came out to be baptized by him, You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath...
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region o...
19 Compare Mat_14:3-5; Mar_6:17-18. 19 Herod's treatment of John is here inserted ahead of time to close the account of John's ministry before opening that of his Master's. 21-22 Compare Mat_3:13-17...
JOHN'S MINISTRY. BAPTISM AND GENEALOGY OF JESUS 1-14.. Preliminary Ministry of the Baptist (Matthew 3:1; Mark 1:1). See on Mt....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 3 THE WORK OF JOHN THE *BAPTIST 3:1-22 V1 The *emperor Tiberius had ruled in that part of the world for 15 years. Pontius Pilate was governing Judea....
EXACT NO MORE. — Under the “farming” system of taxation adopted by the Roman empire, this was the besetting temptation of all collectors employed in it, and it led naturally to the evil repute which a...
CHAPTER 6 THE VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS. WHEN the Old Testament closed, prophecy had thrown upon the screen of the future the shadows of two persons, cast in heavenly light. Sketched in outline rather...
μηδὲν πλέον παρὰ : this mode of expressing comparison (usual in mod. Grk.) is common to Lk. and the Ep. to Heb. (Luke 1:4, etc.), and has been used in support of the view that Lk. wrote Heb. “Non impr...
_Class counsels_, peculiar to Lk. Two samples of John's counsels to classes are here given, prefaced by a counsel applicable to all classes. The classes selected to illustrate the Baptist's social pre...
A PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS Luke 3:1-14 The evangelist sets an emperor, a governor, two high priests, and three tetrarchs in a few lines, as of very subordinate interest, compared with the one man,...
Luke marks with great care the time of the ministry of John, employing an emperor, a governor, three tetrarchs, and two high priests to do it. By means of these names a picture of the world at the tim...
And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is (b) appointed you. (b) Require no more than that sum that is appointed for the tribute money....
_Do nothing more. You who are military men, exact no more of the people than what is allowed and appointed you. (Witham)_...
GENEALOGIES Matthew 1 and Luke 3. There is but one fact of vital importance in all of these genealogies, and that is the transmission to all generations, an infallible history of our Lord's progenitor...
GENUINE FRUITS OF REPENTANCE Luke 3:10-14. _“The multitudes continued to ask him, saying, What then shall we do? Responding, he says to them: Let the one having two coats. give to him having none; and...
SECOND PART: THE ADVENT OF THE MESSIAH, LUKE 3:1 TO LUKE 4:13. For eighteen years Jesus lived unknown in the seclusion of Nazareth. His fellow townsmen, recalling this period of His life, designate Hi...
FIRST NARRATIVE: THE MINISTRY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST, LUKE 3:1-20. We already know from Luke 1:77 why the Messiah was to have a forerunner. A mistaken notion of salvation had taken possession of Israel....
3. VERS. 7-17. The following discourse must not be regarded as a particular specimen of the preaching, the substance of which Luke has transmitted to us. It is a summary of all the discourses of John...
. But what then, the people ask, are those fruits of repentance which should accompany baptism? And, seized with the fear of judgment, different classes of hearers approach John to obtain from him spe...
(3) And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; (4) As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
In chapter 3 we find the exercise of the ministry of the word towards Israel, and that for the introduction of the Lord into this world. It is not the promises to Israel and the privileges secured to...
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM,.... Not by advising them to quit their employments, as if it was a thing unlawful to impose pay, and collect taxes, but by directing them to perform their office aright: EXACT...
And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you. Ver. 13. _Exact no more_] πρασσετε, make no more of your places, than ye may with a good conscience. Shun that mystery of iniqui...
_And the people asked him, What shall we do then?_ To avoid the judgments of God. _He answereth, He that hath two coats_, &c. Be careful, not only to observe the ceremonies of religion, but to attend...
EXACT NO MORE; collect no more than is required by the government....
A VOICE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS (vs.1-20) The first two verses of this chapter establish the precise time of the appearance of John the Baptist in his ministry, so that the reality of it cannot be d...
1-14 The scope and design of John's ministry were, to bring the people from their sins, and to their Saviour. He came preaching, not a sect, or party, but a profession; the sign or ceremony was washi...
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Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II And, besides, even the soldiers and multitude of publicans, who came to hear the word of the Lord about repentance, heard this from the prophet John, after...
Luke 3:13 And G1161 said G2036 (G5627) to G4314 them G846 Collect G4238 (G5719) no G3367 more...
THE POWERFUL MINISTRY OF JOHN IS DESCRIBED (3:1-14). Many years have passed and the ministry of John the Baptiser, whose birth was described in chapter 1, begins. It is set very definitely in its hist...
‘And there came also public servants to be baptised, and they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?” And he said to them, “Extort no more than that which is appointed you.” ' The tax and custom coll...
Luke 3:13. EXACT NO MORE. Great opportunity for exaction was afforded by the system of letting out the collectorships to the highest bidder; the exactions would all be clear profit....
The ministry of John is narrated by all four Evangelists. Peculiar to Luke are: the chronological notice (Luke 3:1), which points out the exact position of the main gospel facts on the wide platform o...
Luke 3:10 I. St. John's three answers all go upon the principle of "doing our duty in that state of life unto which it hath pleased God to call us;" but they are the more striking as coming from a per...
Luke 3:2 I. How shall we picture John the Baptist to ourselves? Great painters, greater than the world seems likely to see again, have exercised their fancy upon his face, his figure, and his actions....
Luke 3:1. Now in the fifteenth yea of the reign of Tiberias Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the...
CONTENTS: Ministry of John the Baptist. Baptism of Jesus. Genealogy of Mary. CHARACTERS: Holy Spirit, God, John Baptist, Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate, Herod, Philip, Annas, Caiaphas, Zacharias, Ab...
Luke 3:1. _In the fifteenth year of Tiberius Cæsar._ St. Luke begins this chapter in a scientific manner; he speaks as a man of letters, and gives posterity a chronological record. Pontius Pilate had...
12-13. SOME TAX COLLECTORS. Jews who collected taxes for the Roman Occupation Government....
_Exact no more than that which is appointed you--_ OPPRESSIONS AND EXTORTIONS OF TAX-GATHERERS Present-day conditions of Eastern lands painfully illustrate the continuance of some of the most demora...
_What shall we do then?_ COMMON SENSE APPLIED TO EVERYDAY DUTIES I. JOHN DISCRIMINATES BETWEEN THE EASE-HARDENED, SELFISH, AND SCARCELY REACHABLE PHARISEES AND HIGH-PLACED REPRESENTATIVES OF OFFICIA...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 3:1 Preparation for the Ministry of Jesus. Luke describes John the Baptist’s ministry of preparation for Jesus (Luke 3:1). Then the focus shifts to Jesus himself ...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 3:12 TAX COLLECTORS. See note on Matt. 5:46–47. They collected tolls, tariffs, and customs, and were notoriously dishonest and despised. SOLDIERS. John does not s
JOHN THE BAPTIST PREPARES THE WAY FOR JESUS MATTHEW 3:1-12; MARK 1:2-8; LUKE 3:2-18; MATTHEW 3:1 In those days came John the Baptist,...
CHAPTER 3 VER. 1. _Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituræa and...
_And he said unto them, exact no more than that which is appointed you_ in the exaction of taxes. In the Greek it is _πζάσσετε_, which can be translated both make and exact, but in this place is more...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 3:1.—This may be regarded as the formal opening of St. Luke’s history. TIBERIUS CÆSAR.—Angus us died A.U.C. 767, and fifteen years added to this would make the time here noted, A...
EXPOSITION LUKE 3:1 THE BAPTISM OF JOHN. LUKE 3:1 NOW IN THE FIFTEENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF TIBERIUS CAESAR. St. Luke's Gospel is framed after the model of approved histories. He c
Shall we turn to Luke's gospel chapter 3. As Luke begins the third chapter, he is giving you the date of the beginning of the ministry of John the Baptist, and he uses no less than six historic refere...
1 Corinthians 6:10; Ephesians 4:28; Ezekiel 18:21; Ezekiel 18:22;...
Exact [π ρ α σ σ ε τ ε]. The change of the Rev., to exhort is unfortunate. The word is used of the exaction of legal tribute, and excessive exaction is expressed by the following words : John would ha...
JOHN THE FORERUNNER Luke 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS I. CHRIST'S TESTIMONY TO JOHN Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, "What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with...