Marginal Notes in the KJV (1611)
Luke 3:14
Do violence to no man:
Or, put no man in fear
wages:
Or, allowance
Do violence to no man:
Or, put no man in fear
wages:
Or, allowance
Verse Luke 3:14. _THE SOLDIERS LIKEWISE DEMANDED OF HIM_] He, _thirdly_, instructs those among the _military_. They were either Roman soldiers, or the soldiers of Herod or Philip. Use no violence to...
THE SOLDIERS LIKEWISE - It seems that “they,” also came to his baptism. Whether these were Jews or Romans cannot be ascertained. It is not improbable that, as Judea was a Roman province, they were Jew...
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...
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...
THE COURIER OF THE KING (Luke 3:1-6)...
THE SOLDIERS. some soldiers (no Art.) going on service. Not the Noun, but the Participle. men under arms. Josephus _(Antiquities xviii 5_ § _1,2)_ tells us that Herod Antipas (Luke 3:1) was engagedin....
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...
_the soldiers_ Rather, SOLDIERS ON THE MARCH. On what expedition these soldiers were engaged it is impossible to say. They cannot have been Roman soldiers, and were certainly not any detachment of the...
ANSWER OF THE BAPTIST TO THE MULTITUDE...
10, 12, 14. ΠΟΙΉΣΩΜΕΝ is better supported than ποιήσομεν. Gr[70] La[71] Ti[72] [70] Gr. Griesbach. [71] La. Lachmann. [72] Ti. Tischendorf. 14. ἘΠΗΡΏΤΩΝ ΔῈ ΑΥ̓ΤΌΝ, ‘asked him.’ The imperfect tense h...
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...
ΈΠΗΡΏΤΩΝ _impf. ind. act., см._ Luke 3:10. ΚΑΊ также, ΣΤΡΑΤΕΥΌΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΣΤΡΑΤΕΎΟΜΑΙ (G4754) быть солдатом, служить в армии (TJ, 101-115; ВВС), ΔΙΑΣΕΊΣΗΤΕ _aor. conj. act. о...
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...
AND THE SOLDIERS LIKEWISE— It was the custom of the Romans to recruit their armies in the conquered provinces; wherefore, as the Jews did not scruple to engage in a military life, many of them might n...
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...
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....
AND THE SOLDIERS LIKEWISE... — The Greek word has not the definite article, and is a participle. Better, _and soldiers, as they were marching._ The words probably point to the troops of Antipas on the...
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...
_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...
στρατευόμενοι, “soldiers on service”. R. V [40] margin. So also Farrar. But Field disputes this rendering. “The advice seems rather to point to soldiers at home, mixing among their fellow-citizens, th...
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 the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse [any] falsely; and be content with your (c) wages. (c) Which was...
The Baptist knew that such as engage in war, are not murderers, but ministers of the law; not avengers of injuries, but defenders of the public weal. Had he thought otherwise, he would have said: "cas...
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...
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 THE SOLDIERS LIKEWISE DEMANDED OF HIM,.... Or "asked him": why our translators have rendered it, "demanded of him", I know not, unless they thought that such language best suited persons of a mili...
And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse _any_ falsely; and be content with your wages. Ver. 14. _Do viole...
_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...
AND THE SOLDIERS LIKEWISE DEMANDED OF HIM, SAYING, AND WHAT SHALL WE DO? AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, DO VIOLENCE TO NO MAN, NEITHER ACCUSE ANY FALSELY; AND BE CONTENT WITH YOUR WAGES. The preaching of John...
Individual counsel to the people:...
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...
A good and faithful minister of Christ should be one able to bring out of his storehouse things new and old, to give every one their portion in their season, and so courageous and faithful as not to b...
Dubious Hippolytus Fragments And before the judgment-seat of Christ shall stand those who once were kings and rulers, chief priests and priests; and they shall give an account of their administration...
Luke 3:14 G1161 Likewise G2532 soldiers G4754 (G5734) asked G1905 (G5707) him G846 saying G3004 ...
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 soldiers also asked him, saying, “And we, what must we do?” And he said to them, “Extort from no man by violence, nor accuse any one wrongfully, and be content with your wages.” ' We are probably...
Luke 3:14. SOLDIERS. Some soldiers. The original refers to those in actual service at the time. They may have had police duty to perform. That they were foreign mercenaries employed by Herod is less l...
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...
SOLDIERS ALSO (κα στρατευομενο). Men on service, _militantes_ rather than _milites_ (Plummer). So Paul in 2 Timothy 2:4. An old word like στρατιωτης, soldier. Some of these soldiers acted as police...
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...
SOME SOLDIERS ALSO ASKED HIM. These were probably Jews or Gentiles converted to Judaism who were part of the Roman army....
_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...
_And the soldiers likewise_ THE LAWFULNESS OF ARMS The common argument, founded on this for the lawfulness of the military profession, seems unanswerable. It is true that war is contrary to the mild...
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 the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages_. Soldiers who were s...
_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 Timothy 6:8; Acts 10:7; Exodus 20:16; Exodus 23:1; Hebrews 13:5;...
Soldiers [σ τ ρ α τ ε υ ο μ ε ν ο ι]. Strictly, soldiers on service : hence the participle, seving as soldiers, instead of the more comprehensive term stratiwtai, soldiers by profession. Some explain...
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, what. general resort there was of all sorts of persons to John's ministry; Pharisees, Sadducees, publicans, soldiers; these last here enquire of him what they should do to gain acceptanc...