Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 3:3
The way of the Lord — Of Christ. Make his paths straight — By removing every thing which might prove a hinderance to his gracious appearance. Isaiah 40:3.
The way of the Lord — Of Christ. Make his paths straight — By removing every thing which might prove a hinderance to his gracious appearance. Isaiah 40:3.
Verse Matthew 3:3. _THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS_] Or, A voice of a crier in the wilderness. This is quoted from Isaiah 40:3, which clearly proves that John the Baptist was the person of...
THE PROPHET ESAIAS - The prophet Isaiah. Esaias is the Greek mode of writing the name. This passage is taken from Isaiah 40:3. It is here said to have been spoken in reference to John, the forerunner...
3. THE HERALD OF THE KING; THE ENTRANCE UPON HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY. __ 1. The Herald of the King. (Matthew 3:1 .) 2. His Message and His Baptism. (Matthew 3:7 .) 3. The King in Jordan's Waters. (Matth...
JOHN THE BAPTIST (Mark 1:2 *, Luke 3:1) The common Synoptic material begins here. The chief difference from Mk. is the addition of Matthew 3:7 from Q (p. 672), _cf._ Luk
THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS. John was called. _voice,_ (1) because the whole man was. sermon; (2) because he would call no attention to himself as. person, but only to the Savior whose...
THE EMERGENCE OF JOHN THE BAPTIZER (Matthew 3:1-6)...
In those days John the Baptizer arrived on the scene, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea. "Repent," he said, "for the Kingdom of the Heavens has come near." It was this man who was spoken of by Isa...
SPOKEN. As well as written. BY. Greek. _hupo._ App-104., but all the Greek texts read " _dia_ ". ESAIAS. Isaiah. The first of twenty-one occurrences of the name in N.T. See App-79. THE VOICE, &C. Q...
Matthew 3:1-12. John Baptist preaches in the Wilderness of Judæa. Mark 1:2-8; Luke 3:1-18; John 1:15-34 St Luke does not name the Pharisees and
_by_ See note on ch. Matthew 2:5. _by the prophet Esaias_ The reference in Isaiah 40:3 is to the promised return from Babylon. A herald shall proclaim the joyous news on mountains and in the desert th...
JOHN BAPTIST PREACHES IN THE WILDERNESS OF JUDÆA Mark 1:2-8; Luke 3:1-18; John 1:15-34 St Matthew alone names the coming of the Pharisees and Sadducees. St Mark’s brief account contains no additional...
ΔΙᾺ for ὑπό, see ch. Matthew 2:17. 3. ΔΙΆ. See note on ch. Matthew 2:5. ΔΙᾺ ἩΣΑΪ́ΟΥ ΤΟΥ͂ ΠΡΟΦΉΤΟΥ. The reference in Isaiah 40:3 is to the promised return from Babylon. A herald shall proclaim the jo...
VER 1. IN THOSE DAYS CAME JOHN THE BAPTIST, PREACHING IN THE WILDERNESS OF JUDAEA, 2. AND SAYING, "REPENT YE: FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND." 3. FOR THIS IS HE THAT WAS SPOKEN OF BY THE PROPHET...
_JOHN PREPARED THE WAY FOR JESUS MATTHEW 3:1-6_ John was called “The” Baptist. Never was he called “A Baptist”. Saying John the Baptist identified the fact that he baptized. John “The Barber” would id...
ΡΗΘΕΊΣ _aor. pass. part. от_ ΛΈΓΩ, _см._ Matthew 3:2. ΒΟΏΝΤΟΣ _praes. act. part. gen. sing. от_ ΒΟΆΩ (G994) кричать, звать громко, ΈΤΟΙΜΑΣΑΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΈΤΟΙΜΆΖΩ (G2090) готовить. _Aor._...
CHAPTER THREE Section 5. THE PREACHING OF JOHN THE BAPTIST (Parallels: Mark 1:1-8; Luke 3:1-18) TEXT: 3:1-12 1. And in those days cometh John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, sa...
For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in...
18 Compare Jer_31:15. 18 The name “Rama” was a common one for a site on a hill. There was probably such a place near Bethlehem beside the tomb of Rachel, who died there in sorrow (Gen_35:19-20). Ther...
3:3 saying, (f-14) Isaiah 40:3 . Lord, (g-29) Used as a name for Jehovah. See Note ch. 1.20....
APPEARANCE OF THE BAPTIST. BAPTISM OF JESUS 1-12. John the Baptist's ministry. The circumstances of John's birth are detailed in Luke 1 (see notes there). He was sanctified from birth to be the foreru...
FOR THIS IS HE, etc.] words of the evangelist, not of the Baptist. Isaiah 40:3 is quoted according to LXX. In Isaiah the words are a summons to make level the roads before Jehovah, who is leading home...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 3 THE WORK OF JOHN THE *BAPTIST 3:1-12 V1 In those days, John the *Baptist appeared in Judea’s wild country. V2 He taught the people...
THIS IS HE. — The words are those of the Evangelist, not of the Baptist, though the latter also used them to describe his own office (John 1:23). In each case the reference shows how strongly the grea...
CHAPTER 3 His Herald - Matthew 3:1 THIRTY years have gone since all Jerusalem was in trouble at the rumour of Messiah's birth. But as nothing has been heard of Him since, the excitement has passed aw...
οὗτος γάρ ἐστιν, etc.: the evangelist here speaks. He finds in John the man of prophecy who proclaims in the desert the near advent of Jehovah coming to deliver His people. He quotes _Isaiah_ only. Ma...
_John the Baptist appears_ (Mark 1:1-6; Luke 3:1-6)....
THE HERALD PREPARES THE WAY Matthew 3:1-12 Matthew's Gospel heralds the Kingdom. We are allowed to see and listen to the forerunner, whose voice again awoke the hearts of men with prophetic utteranc...
Here ends the old prophetic line, John being the last of the Hebrew prophets. It found a fitting end in the stem ascetic who roused the nation and with vehement passion denounced their rebellion, and...
For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, (e) make his paths straight. (e) Make him a plain and smoot...
Isaias spoke these words of the deliverance of the Jews from Babylon; but this was a figure of the freedom of mankind through Jesus Christ. The Jews expected Elias would come in person to prepare the...
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...
And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. I include the whole of these verses into one view, for the better app...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
_THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM_ ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Matthew 3:2 Do not think that St. John was juggling with words. He meant what he said; he knew of and cared for the fears and hopes a...
Matthew 3:3._The yoke of one crying in the wilderness _Though this passage of the prophet Isaiah (40:3) ought not to be limited exclusively to John, yet he is one of the number of those to whom it cer...
We now begin His actual history. John the Baptist comes to prepare the way of Jehovah before Him, according to the prophecy of Isaiah; proclaiming that the kingdom of heaven was at hand, and calling o...
FOR THIS IS HE THAT WAS SPOKEN OF,.... These are not the words of the Baptist himself, as in John 1:23 but of the Evangelist, who cites and applies to John a passage in the Prophet Isaiah, Isaiah 40:3...
For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Ver. 3. _For this is he which was...
_For this is he_, &c. These may be the words of John himself, (comp. John 1:22,) but it is more likely that they are the words of the evangelists; _spoken of by the Prophet Esaias, saying, The voice_,...
OF THE LORD; in the original it is, "Prepare ye the way of Jehovah." Isaiah 40:3. Christ was coming: "Make straight in the desert a highway for our God." Whenever the word Lord in the Old Testament is...
Matthew's manner of adducing the prophetic passage in this instance is peculiar: FOR THIS IS HE THAT WAS SPOKEN OF BY THE PROPHET ESAIAS, SAYING, THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, PREPARE...
Though John was of a priestly family, this too is not mentioned. He does not preach in the temple, but in the wilderness of the river Jordan, at least thirteen miles from Jerusalem. For a priest to pr...
1-6 After Malachi there was no prophet until John the Baptist came. He appeared first in the wilderness of Judea. This was not an uninhabited desert, but a part of the country not thickly peopled, no...
It is not much material whether we understand these words as the words of the evangelist concerning John, as it should seem by MARK 1:3 LUKE 3:4, or the words of John himself, for he thus spake, 1 THE...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough into smooth ways; and all flesh shall s...
Matthew 3:3 For G1063 this G3778 is G2076 (G5748) spoken G4483 (G5685) by G5259 prophet G4396 Isaiah...
‘For this is he who was spoken of through Isaiah the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, “Make you ready the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” ' We now learn that the...
THE MINISTRY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. THE MESSIAH IS REVEALED TO THE WORLD (3:1-17). Many years had passed by of which Matthew tells us nothing. He is not concerned to give us a biography of Jesus' life....
THE MINISTRY OF JOHN (3:1-10). The ministry of John is first described. He has come to the Judaean wilderness with a message of fruitfulness and hope, calling for a change of heart towards God and tow...
Matthew 3:3. FOR. He thus preached, because he was sent to fulfil this prophecy. IS HE. All the Evangelists and John himself thus apply the prophecy, which is more than a typical one. Even if the pri...
John the Baptist, his mission, character, and preaching. The section takes up the Old Testament prophecy (Matthew 3:3), and concludes with an announcement of the coming Messiah (Matthew 3:11-12), whos...
We are going to read three passages relating to John the Baptist's testimony concerning Christ. Matthew 3:1. In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, and saying, Re...
Matthew 3:1. _In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, and saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand._ His was a preparatory ministry; his work was to...
Matthew 3:1. _In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, and saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand._ There is no entering the kingdom of heaven with...
CONTENTS: Ministry of John the Baptist and baptism of Jesus. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, John. CONCLUSION: To follow Jesus in the waters of baptism is to publicly acknowledge our separation from sin, de...
Matthew 3:1. _In those days came John the Baptist._ When the time of the seventy weeks was fulfilled, when the sceptre was departed from Judah, and when all the east, according to Suetonius, expected...
SOMEONE IS SHOUTING. John the Baptist was a _sermon!_ He didn't try to honor himself, he put his all into pointing to Christ. The prophecy is Isaiah 40:3. GET THE LORD'S ROAD READY. Kings of that day...
_Prepare ye the way._ PREPARING THE WAY When the Pacha of Magnesia went to take possession of his new appointment at Aleppo, he was attended by a large retinue of horse and foot soldiers, and other a...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 3:3 John the Baptist fulfills Isaiah 40:3. He also fulfills the prophecies in Malachi 1:1 about the messenge
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 3:1 John the Baptist Prepares for the Messianic Kingdom. John now appears, preaching in the Judean desert. It is more than 25 years since Joseph and his family moved back to N...
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 _In those days_, &c. This was in the fifteenth year of Tiberius, as S. Luke says, when John and Christ were about thirty years of age. Matthew passes at once from the childhood of Christ to...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 3:1. IN THOSE DAYS.—Of Christ’s secluded life at Nazareth (see Luke 3:1, etc.) St. Matthew passes over a period of nearly thirty years (Luke 3:23). PREACHING.—Lt heralding; ma...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 3:1 THE HERALD. His public appearance and proclamation (Matthew 3:1, Matthew 3:2), as foretold by Scripture ...
Chapter Three In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea (Matthew 3:1). Now we have the silent years of Christ. We are jumping now from the return to Nazareth to the b...
Isaiah 40:3; Isaiah 57:14; Isaiah 57:15; John 1:23; Luke 1:17;...
THE PREACHING AND BAPTISM OF JOHN Matthew 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We wish to present the great theme of John the Baptist as he preached in the wilderness of Judea. 1. THERE IS THE POSITIVE STATEMENT...
The Papists, from John the Baptist's living in the wilderness, would make him the first founder of the order of the hermits, but very groundlessly. For, 1. What he did was by God's command; what they...