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Luke 3:3
And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
Verse Luke 3:3. _THE BAPTISM OF REPENTANCE_] See Clarke on Matthew 3:4, and Mark 1:1, Mark 1:1, c., and...
ON THE BAPTISM OF JOHN - see the notes at Matthew 3....
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...
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea, and when Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and the district of Tr...
THE COURIER OF THE KING (Luke 3:1-6)...
CAME. went. INTO. Greek. _eis._ App-104. PREACHING. proclaiming. See App-121. BAPTISM. See App-115. REPENTANCE. See App-111. FOR. with. view to. Greek. _eis._ App-104. THE REMISSION. remission.....
_he came_ St Luke alone mentions the mission journeys of John the Baptist; the other Evangelists, whose narratives (Matthew 3:1-12; Mark 1:1-8; John 1:15; John 1:28
ἮΛΘΕΝ. St Luke alone mentions the mission journeys of John the Baptist; the other Evangelists, whose narratives (Matthew 3:1-12; Mark 1:1-8; John 1:15; John 1:28
Luke 3:1-9. BAPTISM AND PREACHING OF JOHN THE BAPTIST...
Ver 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 voi...
ΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить, идти, ΚΗΡΎΣΣΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΚΗΡΎΣΣΩ (G2784) провозглашать, проповедовать, объявлять. Part, образа действия, объясняющее, как он пришел....
AND HE CAME INTO ALL THE COUNTRY ABOUT JORDAN— What St. Luke terms _the country about Jordan,_ St. Matthew calls _the hill-country of Judea:_ their accounts maybe illustrated from Josephus, who tells...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS The Baptizer's Mission (Luke 3:1-6) 3 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his bro...
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...
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....
Going upward from Zerubbabel and Salathiel, which are common to both genealogies, we come again across a different succession — St. Luke leading us to Nathan as the son of David, and St. Matthew to So...
(3-9) AND HE CAME INTO ALL THE COUNTRY... — The words paint the mission-work of John somewhat more vividly than those of St. Matthew and St. Mark, who represent the people flocking to Him from Jerusal...
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...
_John's ministry_....
ἦλθεν. In Mt. and Mk. the people come from all quarters to John. Here John goes to the people in an itinerant ministry. The latter may apply to the early stage of his ministry. He might move about til...
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...
To all who read, it is plain, that St. John [the Baptist] not only preached baptism, but likewise conferred it upon many; yet, he could not give baptism to the remission of sins. (St. Gregory, hom. xx...
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...
CHAPTER 4 MINISTRY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST BY MATTHEW, MARK, AND LUKE Luke 3:1-2. “In the fifteenth year of the dominion of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of...
2. VERS. 3-6. The _country about Jordan_, in Luke, doubtless denotes the arid plains near the mouth of this river. The name _wilderness of Judea_, by which Matthew and Mark designate the scene of John...
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) 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...
_THE BAPTIST’S MESSAGE_ ‘And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.’ Luke 3:3 What is repentance? I. REPENTANCE IS THAT CHANGE OF...
Luke 3:3._Preaching the baptism of repentance _This form of expression shows first, generally, what is the right use of the Sacraments; and next, why _baptism _was instituted, and in what it consists....
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 CAME INTO ALL THE COUNTRY ABOUT JORDAN,.... He came out of the wilderness of Judea, where he first began his ministry, to some parts of the country that bordered on Jordan, and was near unto it...
And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; Ver. 3. _Preaching the baptism of repentance_] John's note was still repentance. Christ c...
_And he came into all the country about Jordan_ He made his first public appearance in the wilderness of Judea, Matthew 3:1; that is, in the uncultivated and thinly-inhabited parts of the hill-country...
THE BAPTISM OF REPENTANCE; it implied the necessity of repentance in order to the remission of sins. The utter moral pollution of man by sin, and the necessity of spiritual cleansing by the Spirit of...
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...
How long the time of John's ministry was before he was shut up by Herod in prison the Holy Scriptures do not certainly tell us; but it must be very short, for our Saviour's time was little more than t...
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‘And he came into all the region round about the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins,'. And as a result of receiving ‘the word of God' John came into the region round ab...
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...
Luke 3:3. See on Matthew 3:1; Mark 1:4....
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...
ALL THE REGION ROUND ABOUT JORDAN (πασαν περιχωρον του Ιορδανου). The wilderness was John's abode (Luke 1:80) so that he began preaching where he was. It was the plain (Genesis 13:10) or valley of t...
SINS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
Luke 3:3 I. The teaching of St. John the Baptist, as it is described to us in Scripture, was perhaps different to what many would have expected. He had not only been sanctified to God in the world, an...
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...
SO JOHN WENT THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE TERRITORY. See notes on Matthew 3:1-12....
_The country about Jordan--_ THE RIVER JORDAN The river Jordan rises in the Anti-Lebanon, to the north of Jerusalem. Imagine that you are looking, as your glance may be directed towards me, to Jerus...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 3:3 BAPTISM OF REPENTANCE. To repent, or “change one’s mind,” called for a change in a person’s attitude toward God that affected one’s actions and life choices. Baptize means “to di...
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 ...
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 came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance_ (_i.e._, stirring them up to do penance) _for the remission of sins_ to be obtained in the baptism of Christ. John...
_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...
Acts 13:24; Acts 19:4; Acts 22:16; John 1:28; John 1:31;...
The country about Jordan. Which both Matthew and Mark call the wilderness. See on Matthew 3:1. Baptism of repentance. Wyc., penaunce. For [ε ι ς]. Better as Rev., unto, denoting the destination of th...
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...
Observe here, 1. The place where the Baptist exercised his ministry; in the wilderness of Judea, where were some cities and villages, though thinly inhabited. Note here, the great humility of the Bap...