Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Matthew 3:6
And were baptized of him in Jordan, (h) confessing their sins.
(h) Acknowledging that they were saved only by free remission and forgiveness of their sins.
And were baptized of him in Jordan, (h) confessing their sins.
(h) Acknowledging that they were saved only by free remission and forgiveness of their sins.
Verse Matthew 3:6. _WERE BAPTIZED_] In what form baptism was originally administered, has been deemed a subject worthy of serious dispute. Were the people _dipped_ or _sprinkled_? for it is certain β...
WERE BAPTIZED - The word “baptize” βαπτίζω baptizo signifies originally to tinge, to dye, to stain, as those who dye clothes. It here means to cleanse or wash anything by the application of water. Se...
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
AND WERE BAPTIZED OF HIM IN JORDAN. Note that the baptism took place not at, but _in_ the Jordan. Mark says "in the river of Jordan." The Jordan, the principal stream of Palestine, rises in the mount...
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...
WERE BAPTIZED. were being baptized. BAPTIZED OF. See App-115. OF. by. Greek. _hupo._ App-104....
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
_baptized_ John introduced no new custom, for ceremonial ablution or baptism was practised in all ancient religions. Among the Jews proselytes were baptized on admission to the Mosaic covenant. John's...
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...
ἘΒΑΠΤΊΖΟΝΤΟ were ‘immersed;’ (the tense marks the successive instances). βαπτίζω, a strengthened form of βάπτω, like some other leading Christian words (e.g. Χριστός, ἀγάπη, μετάνοια), is rare in the...
VER 5. THEN WENT OUT TO HIM JERUSALEM, AND ALL JUDAEA, AND ALL THE REGION ROUND ABOUT JORDAN, 6. AND WERE BAPTIZED OF HIM IN JORDAN, CONFESSING THEIR SINS. Pseudo-Chrys.: Having described the preachi...
_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...
ΈΒΑΠΤΊΖΟΝΤΟ _impf. ind. pass. от_ ΒΑΠΤΊΖΩ (G907) крестить, первоначально: погружать, окунать. Гл., оканчивающиеся на -ίζω, зачастую являются каузативными (МН, 409). Крещение символизирует отречение от...
WERE BAPTIZED OF HIM— There were two kinds of baptism in use among the Jews; one was that of the priests at their consecration, Leviticus 8:6.; the other was that of the heathens proselyted to the Jew...
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 were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. AND WERE BAPTIZED OF HIM IN JORDAN, CONFESSING [PROBABLY CONFESSING ALOUD exomologoumenoi (G1843 )] THEIR SINS. This baptism was at once a...
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...
WERE BAPTIZED] The Baptism of John was specifically a baptism of repentance, of which public confession was the pledge and evidence. Its significance can be best described in the words of Isaiah: 'Was...
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...
WERE BAPTIZED. — The Greek tense implies continual succession. Crowd after crowd passed on, and still they came _confessing their sins_ — _i.e.,_ as the position of the word implies, in the closest po...
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...
καὶ ἐβαπτίζοντο : the imperfect again. They were baptised as they came. ἐν τῷ Ἰορ. ποταμῷ. The word ποταμῷ, omitted in T. R., by all means to be retained. Dull prosaic scribes might deem it superfluou...
_Effects of John's preaching_. Remarkable by his appearance, his message, and his moral intensity, John made a great impression. They took him for a prophet, and a prophet was a novelty in those days....
_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...
Baptized. the word baptism signifies a washing, particularly when it is done by immersion, or by dipping, or plunging a thing under water, which was formerly the ordinary way of administering the sacr...
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 were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. The wilderness of Judea John preached in, is not to be considered by us as what we should now call a wilderness, that is a solitary place, f...
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...
Matthew 3:6; Mark 1:5._And were baptized, confessing their sins _This _confession _was a testimony of _repentance: _for, as the Lord, in the sacraments, brings himself under obligation to us, as if he...
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 WERE BAPTIZED OF HIM,.... The place where they were baptized of him was, "in Jordan"; some copies read, "in the river Jordan", as in Mark 1:5. As to the name of this river, and the etymology of it...
And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. Ver. 6. _And were baptized of him in Jordan_] Baptizing of proselytes was in use among the Jews before the days of John Baptist. From this c...
_And were baptized of him in Jordan_ Namely, those that were awakened to repentance. It has been questioned by many, whether John baptized these immense multitudes by dipping them in Jordan? In answer...
CONFESSING THEIR SINS; the baptism of John was adapted to impress the minds of the people with a conviction of their pollution by sin, and of the necessity, through repentance, of spiritual cleansing...
John performed his ministry to all: AND WERE BAPTIZED OF HIM IN JORDAN, CONFESSING THEIR SINS. His powerful, appealing call to repentance had its effect. In ever-increasing numbers they came. The g...
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...
A great part of those who went out to hear John were BAPTIZED, that is dipped, _in Jordan; _ but from hence it will not follow that dipping is essential to baptism, the washing of the soul with the bl...
Tertullian On Baptism even of the baptism of John: "They were baptized," saith (the Scripture), "confessing their own sins."[203]...
Matthew 3:6 and G2532 baptized G907 (G5712) by G5259 him G846 in G1722 Jordan G2446 confessing G1843 ...
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....
‘Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about the Jordan, and they were baptised of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.' The impact of John's ministry is...
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...
AND THEY WERE BAPTIZED (κα εβαπτιζοντο). It is the imperfect tense to show the repetition of the act as the crowds from Judea and the surrounding country kept going out to him (εξεπορευετο), imperfe...
SINS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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._ 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...
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...
HE BAPTIZED THEM. In the Jordan river (Mark 1:5). The Jordan is the important river of Palestine. It begins in the mountains of Lebanon, runs south into the Lake of Galilee, leaving it descends southw...
_Baptized of Him._ I. In baptism we are admitted to the kingdom of Christ. 1. Presented unto Him. 2. Consigned with His Sacrament. 3. Witnessing a good confession. 4. Undertaking a holy life. II...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 3:5 “Baptize” means “to plunge, dip, immerse.” When people WERE BAPTIZED BY HIM, going under the water symbolized the cleansing of sin....
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...
1 Corinthians 10:2; 1 John 1:9; 1 Peter 3:21; Acts 1:5; Acts 10:36;...
Were baptized [ε β α π τ ι ζ ο ν τ ο]. See on Mark 7:4. Confessing their sins [ε ξ ο μ ο λ ο γ ο υ μ ε ν ο ι τ α ς α μ α ρ τ ι α ς α υ τ ω ν]. The words imply : 1. That confession was connected with...
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...
Confessing their sins — Of their own accord; freely and openly. Such prodigious numbers could hardly be baptized by immerging their whole bodies under water: nor can we think they were provided with c...
This place the papists bring to support their doctrine of auricular confession; but very groundlessly. For, 1. The confession of those converts was voluntary, and not constrained. 2. It was general,...