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Verse Matthew 3:11. _BUT HE THAT COMETH AFTER ME_] Or, _I coming
after me_, who is now on his way, and will shortly make his
appearance. Jesus Christ began his ministry when he was thirty years
of ag...
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WHOSE SHOES I AM NOT WORTHY TO BEAR - The word translated here as
“shoes” has a signification different from what it has in our
language. At first, in order to keep the feet from the sharp stones or
t...
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3. THE HERALD OF THE KING; THE ENTRANCE UPON HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY.
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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...
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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
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INDEED BAPTIZE YOU WITH WATER UNTO REPENTANCE.
His baptism was only. water baptism. He could go no farther. The King
could send the Holy Spirit, and give another and. mightier baptism, in
addition to...
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When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism,
he said to them, "Brood of vipers! Who put it into your minds to flee
from the coming wrath? Produce fruit to fit repentance. Do...
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THE EMERGENCE OF JOHN THE BAPTIZER (Matthew 3:1-6)...
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WITH. Greek. _en._ The literal rendering of the Hebrew (_Beth =_ B).
Matthew 7:6; Matthew 9:34. Rom 15:6. 1 Corinthians 4:21, &c.
SHOES. sandals.
WORTHY. fit or equal. Not the same word
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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
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_unto repentance_ i. e. to be a symbol of the changed life.
_whose shoes I am not worthy to bear_ The work of the meanest slaves.
John, great prophet as he was, with influence sufficient to make even...
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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...
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ἘΝ ὝΔΑΤΙ. Either (1) ‘in water,’ the surrounding element
is water; or better (2) ‘with water,’ ἐν being used of the
instrument as frequently in Hellenistic Greek. Cp. ἐν
μαχαιρᾷ�, ch. Matthew 26:52. ἐ...
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VER 11. "I INDEED BAPTIZE YOU WITH WATER UNTO REPENTANCE: BUT HE THAT
COMETH AFTER ME IS MIGHTIER THAN I, WHOSE SHOES I AM NOT WORTHY TO
BEAR: HE SHALL BAPTIZE YOU WITH THE HOLY GHOST, AND WITH FIRE:...
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_JOHN PREACHED ONE MIGHTIER THAN HIMSELF MATTHEW 3:11-12:_ John was
born about six months before Jesus, and began his ministry before
Jesus did His. John wanted it clearly understood that though Jesus...
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ΈΝ (G1722) instr. (BD, 104).
ΎΔΑΤΙ _dat. от_ ΎΔΩΡ (G5204) вода,
ΕΊΣ (G1520) с _асс._ ввиду. Также возможно,
"по причине" (DM, 104). Крещение
предполагает и выражает покаяние (DA).
ΟΠΊΣΩ (G3694) с _...
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DISCOURSE: 1283
THE BAPTISM OF THE SPIRIT
Matthew 3:11. _I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he
that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy
to bear: he shall...
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I INDEED BAPTIZE YOU— This is the answer which John made to the
question put to him, John 1:19 in which he shews what difference there
was between him and the Messiah. "_I indeed,_ says he, _baptize y...
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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...
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I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh
after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he
shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
I INDE...
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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...
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3:11 sandals (b-20) The luxurious 'shoe' is not meant here. with
(c-31) _ En_ , 'in the power of,' be it external or simply the nature
and character of, but always including the latter. see Luke 2:27...
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WHOSE SHOES, etc.] the office of the meanest slave. 'A slave unlooses
his master's shoe, and carries it after him; does what he needs for
the bath, undresses, washes, anoints, rubs, redresses him, and...
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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...
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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...
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WITH WATER UNTO REPENTANCE. — The “I” is emphasized, as also the
baptism with water, as contrasted with that which was to follow. The
result of John’s baptism, even for those who received it faithfull...
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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...
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_John defines his relation to the Messiah_ (Mark 1:7-8; Luke 3:15-17).
This prophetic word would come late in the day when the Baptist's fame
was at its height, and men began to think it possible he m...
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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...
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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...
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(5) I indeed baptize you with water unto (l) repentance: but he that
cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to
bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit, and [with] fire...
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My baptism is only calculated to lead you to a penitential life, and
not to give you true justice; but he who comes after me, is stronger
than I, and whose shoes I am not worthy to carry: (it was cust...
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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...
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Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and
gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with
unquenchable fire.
The Pharisees were a sect who prided themse...
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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...
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_CLEANSING AND BURNING_
‘I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: … He shall
baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.’
Matthew 3:11
It is not too much to say that many people think a...
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_CHRIST FIRST_
‘He that cometh after me is mightier than I.’
Matthew 3:11
These are some of the most beautiful words in human history, and they
gain an added beauty from the personal circumstances...
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_MANIFESTED BY FIRE_
‘He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.’
Matthew 3:11
There are three baptisms in the New Testament: the baptism of John
unto repentance; the baptism of Chris...
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The three Evangelists relate the Baptist’s discourse in the same
words. In one respect, Luke’s account is more full: for he opens it
by explaining the occasion on which this discourse was delivered. I...
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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...
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I INDEED BAPTIZE YOU WITH WATER,.... These words, at first view, look
as if they were a continuation of John's discourse with the Pharisees
and Sadducees, and as though he had baptized them; whereas b...
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I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh
after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he
shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and _with_ fire:
Ver. 1...
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_I indeed baptize you with water_ I call you to repentance: and admit
the penitent to the baptism of water, as a sign and token of their
being washed from their past sins, and of their engaging to wal...
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HE; Jesus Christ.
NOT WORTHY; though among all who were born of women none were greater
in condition and honor than John. Matthew 11:11, yet so much greater
was Jesus Christ, even in his deepest humi...
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John's sermon would have been incomplete without a reference to Him
whose way he was sent to prepare: I INDEED BAPTIZE YOU WITH WATER UNTO
REPENTANCE, BUT HE THAT COMETH AFTER ME IS MIGHTIER THAN I...
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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...
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7-12 To make application to the souls of the hearers, is the life of
preaching; so it was of John's preaching. The Pharisees laid their
chief stress on outward observances, neglecting the weightier m...
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I am not the Christ, MARK 1:8 LUKE 3:15,16 JOH 1:15,26, I am but the
messenger and forerunner of Christ, sent before him to baptize men
with the baptism of water, in testimony of their repentance; but...
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Dialogue of Justin
He cried, as he sat by the river Jordan: `I baptize you with water to
repentance; but He that is stronger than I shall come, whose shoes I
am not worthy to bear: He shall baptize y...
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Matthew 3:11 I G1473 indeed G3303 baptize G907 (G5719) you G5209 with
G1722 water G5204 unto G1519 repentance...
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THE COMING ONE (3:11-17).
John's large-scale ministry having been established in these few
verses, Matthew now turns his attention to Jesus. We do not know how
long John had been preaching before this...
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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....
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“I indeed baptise you in water to repentance, but he who comes after
(or ‘behind') me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to
bear. He will baptise you in the Holy Spirit and fire,”
John ha...
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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...
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MIGHTIER THAN I
(ισχυροτερος μου). Ablative after the comparative
adjective. His baptism is water baptism, but the Coming One "will
baptize in the Holy Spirit and fire." "Life in the coming age is i...
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Matthew 3:11
I. The Holy Spirit is fire. Fire all over the world has been taken to
represent the Divine energy. Even in heathendom, side by side with the
worship of light, was the worship of fire. Tho...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_And with fire._
THE FIERY BAPTISM
I. The Holy Ghost is fire. Baptism with the Holy Ghost is not one
thing and baptism with fire another, but the former is the reality of
which the latter is the sym...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 3:11 BAPTIZE YOU WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND
FIRE. John’s water baptism will be replaced by the baptism
associated with the Messiah, HE WHO IS COMING (see note on 1 Cor
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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_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...
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EXPOSITION
MATTHEW 3:1
THE HERALD. His public appearance and proclamation (Matthew 3:1,
Matthew 3:2), as foretold by Scripture ...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 12:13; 1 Peter 5:5; Acts 1:5; Acts 11:15; Acts 11:16;...
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To bear. Compare to unloose, Mark 1:7. John puts himself in the
position of the meanest of servants. To bear the sandals of their
masters, that is, to bring and take them away, as well as to fasten or...
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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...
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He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire — He shall
fill you with the Holy Ghost, inflaming your hearts with that fire of
love, which many waters cannot quench. And this was done, even w...
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In these words John declares the excellency of Christ's person and
ministry above his own.
As to his person, he owns that he was not worthy to carry his shoes
after him, or to perform the lowest offi...