Verse Matthew 3:2. _REPENT_] μετανοειτε. This was the _matter_ of the preaching. The verb μετανοεω is either compounded of μετα, _after,_ and νοειν _to understand_, which signifies that, _after heari...
REPENT YE - Repentance implies sorrow for past offences 2 Corinthians 7:10; a deep sense of the evil of sin as committed against God Psalms 51:4; and a full purpose to turn from transgression and to l...
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
REPENT YE. The great rite of John was baptism but the great duty commanded was repentance. The baptism was the "baptism of repentance for the remission of sins," and the theme of his preaching was "R...
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...
REPENT. Greek. _metanoeo._ See App-111. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. See App-114. OF. Genitive of origin. from. App-17. HEAVEN. the heavens (plural) See note on Matthew 6:9; Matthew 6:10. IS AT HAND. had...
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
_Repent ye_ The original implies more than "feel sorrow or regret for sin," it is rather "change the life, the heart, the _motive_for action." It was a call to self-examination and reality of life. _t...
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...
ΜΕΤΑΝΟΕΙ͂ΤΕ. More than ‘feel sorrow or regret for sin,’ it is rather ‘change the life, the heart, the _motive_ for action.’ It was a call to self-examination and reality of life. Ἡ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΊΑ ΤΩ͂Ν ΟΥ̓ΡΑ...
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...
ΛΈΓΩΝ _praes. act. part._ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить. Part, используется в семитских конструкциях в связи с гл. речи и соответствует_евр._ слову לאמר. Оно может быть переведено словом "так" (VA, 138 f; BD,...
REPENT YE— This was only the substance and result of his preaching. The _kingdom of heaven_ and the _kingdom of God,_ are but two phrases for the same thing, agreeably to the style of the Hebrews; who...
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...
And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. AND SAYING, REPENT YE. Though the word [ metanoeite (G3340)] strictly denotes a change of mind, it has respect here, and wherever it is...
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...
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...
REPENT YE] Repentance is not mere sorrow for sin, but a real change of life. It includes, (1) contrition, i.e. sorrow for sin, regarded as an offence against God; (2) confession of sin, always to God,...
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...
REPENT. — Etymologically, the word “repent,” which has as its root-meaning the sense of pain, is hardly adequate as a rendering for the Greek word, which implies change of mind and purpose. In the Gre...
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...
λέγων introduces the burden of his preaching. μετανοεῖτε, _Repent_. That was John's great word. Jesus used it also when He began to preach, but His distinctive watchword was _Believe_. The two watchwo...
_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...
And saying, (c) Repent ye: for the (d) kingdom of heaven is at hand. (c) The word in the greek signifies a changing of our minds and heart from evil to better. (d) The kingdom of Messiah, whose gove...
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...
CHAPTER 5 THE BAPTISM WHICH JESUS GIVES CONTRASTED WITH THAT OF JOHN Matthew 3:2; Mark 1:7-8; Luke 3:16. “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance; but the One coming after me is more powerful...
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...
_REPENTANCE_ ‘Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Matthew 3:2 I. NOT THE BAPTIST’S WORDS ONLY.—It adds to the force of these words to remember that they were not John the Baptist’s on...
_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 3:2._Repent ye _Matthew differs from the other two Evangelists in this respect, that he relates the substance of John’s doctrine, as uttered by John himself, while they relate it in their own...
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...
AND SAYING, REPENT YE,.... The doctrine which John preached was the doctrine of repentance; which may be understood either of amendment of life and manners; for the state of the Jews was then very cor...
And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Ver. 2. _And saying, Repent ye_] Change your minds now at the preaching of the gospel, as they changed their garments at the promulgation...
Mat. 3:2. "Repent ye, for the _kingdom of heaven_ is at hand." The following are the places of the Old Testament from whence probably the Jews principally took their notion of the kingdom of heaven....
_Repent ye_, &c. Be sorry for your sins, and amend your lives; for the original word, μετανοειτε, here used, implies this. It properly signifies, says Beza, _to be wise after the action_, and so to gr...
REPENT; repentance is a change of mind with regard to sin, especially as committed against God, which leads a person to hate, confess, and forsake it. KINGDOM OF HEAVEN; the Messiah's reign as predict...
The emphasis of John was on one fact: AND SAYING, REPENT YE; FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND. That was the chief content, the matter, the burden, of his heralding, the admonition to repentance...
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...
The evangelist only gives us the sum and scope of the Baptist's doctrine, the other evangelists give us a more full account of his pressing also faith in Christ, 1 THESSALONIANS 1:29, 1 THESSALONIANS...
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II of the Virgin; those a little before His bodily appearance by John His forerunner, and the same by the same person after Christ's birth, saying, "Repent ye,...
Matthew 3:2 and G2532 saying G3004 (G5723) Repent G3340 (G5720) for G1063 kingdom G932 heaven G3772 hand...
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...
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....
“Repent you, for the Kingly Rule of Heaven is at hand.” His message is simple, and yet profound. He is calling on them to ‘repent,', to turn to God and to turn from sin, because all that the prophets...
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...
Matthew 3:2. REPENT. Not mere remorse, but conversion and reformation, or turning away from sin and unto God. The Greek word means change of mind or heart. A necessary exhortation, because the people...
REPENT (μετανοειτε). Broadus used to say that this is the worst translation in the New Testament. The trouble is that the English word "repent" means "to be sorry again" from the Latin _repoenitet_...
(1) The phrase, kingdom of heaven (literally, of the heavens), is peculiar to Matthew and signifies the Messianic earth rule of Jesus Christ, the Son of David. It is called the kingdom of the heavens...
Matthew 3:1 Morality and Religion. I. As far as we know of the preaching of John the Baptist, it consisted in what we should call the enforcement of moral duties. Soon after, our Lord Himself began H...
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...
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...
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...
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...
TURN AWAY FROM YOUR SINS. To "repent" is to "turn away," Sorrow is not repentance (_see_ 2 Corinthians 7:10). John's baptism was "renewal" and pointed to Christ (Acts 19:4). KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. The Kin...
_Repent ye._ THE FORERUNNER of Jesus was distinguished as a prophet. I. The preacher. Powerful and faithful. II. The duty enforced. “Repentance.’ III. The plea by which it is enforced. The kingdo...
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...
1 Kings 8:47; 2 Corinthians 7:10; 2 Peter 3:9; 2 Timothy 2:25; Act
Repent [μ ε τ α ν ο ε ι τ ε]. A word compounded of the preposition meta, after, with; and the verb noew, to perceive, and to think, as the result of perceiving or observing. In this compound the prepo...
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 kingdom of heaven, and the kingdom of God, are but two phrases for the same thing. They mean, not barely a future happy state, in heaven, but a state to be enjoyed on earth: the proper disposition...