Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Luke 3:19
(4) But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
(4) John's preaching is confirmed with his death.
(4) But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
(4) John's preaching is confirmed with his death.
LUKE 3:19 tetraa,rchj See the comment on Ac 13.1....
Verse Luke 3:19. _HEROD THE TETRARCH_] See this subject explained at large, Matthew 14:1, c., and Luke 6:21 Luke 6:23....
See the notes at Matthew 14:1. “Added this above all.” To all his former crimes he added this; not implying that this was the “worst” of his acts, but that this was “one” of his deeds, of like charact...
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...
THE COURIER OF THE KING (Luke 3:1-6)...
So then, urging the people with many other pleas, John preached the gospel to them. But, when Herod the tetrarch was rebuked by him concerning the matter of Herodias, his brother's wife, and concernin...
HEROD. See Matthew 14:3. App-109. BY. Greek. _hupo._ App-104. FOR. concerning. Greek. _peri._ App-104. Not the same word as in verses: Luke 3:3; Luke 3:3. EVILS. Greek. _ponera (plural)_ App-128....
_But Herod the tetrarch_ The incident which follows is here introduced by anticipation, that the subsequent narrative may not be disturbed. It should be compared with the fuller notice in Mark 6:17-20...
The Messianic Announcement. Imprisonment of John 15. _were in expectation_ The Messianic expectations of the day had even reached the Gentiles, many of whom even at Rome and in high society were pros...
19. The addition of Φιλίππου after γυναικὸς is a gloss, though a correct one, in AC. It is omitted in אBD and by the recent editors. 19. Ὁ ΔῈ ἩΡΏΔΗΣ Ὁ ΤΕΤΡΆΡΧΗΣ. The incident which follows is here int...
THE MESSIANIC ANNOUNCEMENT. IMPRISONMENT OF JOHN...
VER 18. AND MANY OTHER THINGS IN HIS EXHORTATION PREACHED HE TO THE PEOPLE. 19. BUT HEROD THE TETRARCH, BEING REPROVED BY HIM FOR HERODIAS HIS BROTHER PHILIP'S WIFE, AND FOR ALL THE EVILS WHICH HEROD...
ΕΛΕΓΧΌΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. pass. part. от_ ΕΛΈΓΧΩ (G1651) выносить на свет, показывать, признавать кого-л. виновным или убеждать в чем-л., обличать (BAGD). Об Иоанне и Ироде Антипе _см._ TJ, 63-64; НА, 110-7...
DISCOURSE: 1483 THE IMPRISONMENT OF JOHN Luke 3:19. _Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done, added yet this abov...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 The Baptizer's Meekness (Luke 3:15-20) 15 As the people were in expectation, and all men questioned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he were the Christ, 1...
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....
JOHN IS IMPRISONED BY HEROD (Matthew 14:3; Mark 6:17). See on Mt. 21, 22. BAPTISM OF JESUS (Matthew 3:13; Mark 1:9). 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....
(19-20) BUT HEROD THE TETRARCH. — See Notes on Matthew 14:3. St. Luke’s anticipation of the close of the Baptist’s history supplies a curious instance of an arrangement which was obviously deliberate....
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...
_Close of the Baptist's ministry and life_. Lk. gives here all he means to say about John, condensing into a single sentence the full narratives of Mt. and Mk. as to his end....
Ἡρώδης : the tetrarch named in Luke 3:1. περὶ πάντων, implying that John's rebuke was not confined to the sin with Herodias. Probably not, but it was what John said on that score that cost him his hea...
THE HERALD SILENCED; THE MESSIAH APPEARS Luke 3:15-23 We are told that the time of John's appearance was the Sabbatic year, when field-work was suspended, and the people had comparative leisure. In h...
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...
See in St. Mark vi. 17. The wife of his brother (Philip.) The Greek adds the name, and he is also named in St. Mark; but he is a different person from the tetrarch, mentioned in chap. iii. ver. 1. (Bi...
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...
ARREST & IMPRISONMENT OF JOHN THE BAPTIST Matthew 14:3-5; Mark 6:17-20; Luke 3:19-21. Mark: “For Herod himself, having sent, arrested John, and bound him in prison, on account of Herodias, the wife of...
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....
4. VERS. 18-20. We find here one of those general surveys such as we have in Luke 1:66; Luke 1:80; Luke 2:40; Luke 2:52. For the third time the lot of the forerunner becomes
(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...
_A SHARP CONTRAST_ ‘Herod the tetrarch … John in prison.’ Luke 3:19 There could hardly be a sharper contrast than that presented in the careers of Herod Antipas and John the Baptist. I. HEROD A LO...
Luke 3:19._Now Herod the tetrarch. _Luke alone explains the reason why Herod threw John into prison: though we shall afterwards find it mentioned by Matthew 14:3, and Mark 6:17. Josephus says, (Ant. 1...
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...
BUT HEROD THE TETRARCH BEING REPROVED BY HIM,.... By John, as the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions add: FOR HERODIAS HIS BROTHER PHILIP'S WIFE; for taking her to wife, whilst his brother Philip wa...
But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done, Ver. 19. _For Herodias his brother Philip's wife_] Whom it was not la...
_And many other things preached he unto the people_ In this manner did John inculcate the doctrine of repentance, and declare his Master's greatness. But his sermons were not confined to these matters...
John's imprisonment-Christ baptized. Matthew 14:1-13; Matthew 3:13-17...
John's testimony concerning Christ:...
BUT HEROD THE TETRARCH, BEING REPROVED BY HIM FOR HERODIAS, HIS BROTHER PHILIP'S WIFE, AND FOR ALL THE EVILS WHICH HEROD HAD DONE,...
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...
15-20 John the Baptist disowned being himself the Christ, but confirmed the people in their expectations of the long-promised Messiah. He could only exhort them to repent, and assure them of forgiven...
Ver. 19,20. These two verses sufficiently confirm to us, that we are not to expect to find the several passages in the Gospel concerning John the Baptist set down according to the order of time in whi...
Luke 3:19 But G1161 Herod G2264 tetrarch G5076 rebuked G1651 (G5746) by G5259 him G846 concerning G4012 Herodias...
JOHN IS REJECTED BY HEROD (3:19-20). ‘But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother's wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done, added this also to them all, tha...
Luke 3:19. BUT HEROD, etc. This took place afterwards. It is inserted here to complete the sketch of John's ministry, just as chap. Luke 1:80 does that of his youth. HERODIAS. See Matthew 14:3. All...
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...
REPROVED (ελεγχομενος). Present passive participle of ελεγχω, an old verb meaning in Homer to treat with contempt, then to convict (Matthew 18:15), to expose (Ephesians 5:11), to reprove as here. Th...
HEROD See margin reference, (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 14:1). _...
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...
BUT JOHN SPOKE AGAINST GOVERNOR HEROD. See notes on Matthew 14:1-12....
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 3:18 John is different from the OT prophets because he is the first preacher of the GOOD NEWS of the kingdom of God (see Luke 16:16)....
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...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Luke 3:15_ Acceptance and Rejection of the Divine Message.—The work of separating the wheat from the chaff and of bringing to light the hidden thoughts of men is d...
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...
Mark 6:17; Mark 6:18; Matthew 11:2; Matthew 14:3; Matthew 14:4;...
Being reproved [ε λ ε γ χ ο μ ε ν ο ς]. See on James 2:9. Evils [π ο ν η ρ ω ν]. Of several words in the New Testament denoting evil, this emphasizes evil in its activity. Hence Satan is oJ ponhrov, t...