Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Matthew 3:8
(3) Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
(3) True repentance is an inward thing which has its seat in the mind and heart.
(3) Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
(3) True repentance is an inward thing which has its seat in the mind and heart.
BRING FORTH THEREFORE FRUITS ... - That is, the proper fruits of reformation; the proper evidence that you are sincere. Do not bring your cunning and dissimulation to this work; do not carry your hypo...
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
BRING FORTH, THEREFORE, FRUITS MEET FOR REPENTANCE. The manner of life that would prove that. change had taken place, and that they were truly penitent. There is no repentance whatever unless there i...
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...
THE EMERGENCE OF JOHN THE BAPTIZER (Matthew 3:1-6)...
MEET FOR. worthy of....
_meet for repentance_ "Answerable to amendment of life." (_Margin_.)...
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
ΠΟΙΉΣΑΤΕ. Aorist imperative, denoting complete and immemediate action. See Donaldson _Gk. Gram._ 427 (_a_). ΜΕΤΆΝΟΙΑ. Rare in classical writers, joined by Thuc. with ἀναλογισμός (III. 36). Cp. also με...
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...
Ver 7. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, "O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8. Bring forth therefore...
_JOHN PREACHED A MESSAGE OF REPENTANCE MATTHEW 3:7-10:_ There were those that John refused to baptize because they showed no repentance. (Matthew 3:7-8) He called these people a generation of vipers b...
ΠΟΙΉΣΑΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160). _Aor. imper._ свидетельствует о конкретности действия, ΟΎΝ (G3767) поэтому (вводит заключение из предшествующего), ΆΞΙΟΝ (G514) _асс. sing._ соответств...
DISCOURSE: 1282 JOHN’S ADDRESS TO THOSE WHO CAME TO BE BAPTIZED OF HIM Matthew 3:7. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them., O generation of vipers!...
FRUITS MEET FOR REPENTANCE— That is, "Do such works as may manifest the truth and sincerity of your repentance." See Acts 26:20....
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...
Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: BRING FORTH THEREFORE FRUITS, [ karpous (G2590)] - but the true reading clearly is 'fruit' [ karpon (G2590)]. MEET FOR REPENTANCE - that is, such...
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...
3:8 Produce (i-1) The verb is in the aorist. It is to be the characteristic of the man, not a mere exhortation for the future. 'Be in the state of having done it.' repentance. (k-6) The word here and...
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...
FRUITS MEET FOR REPENTANCE] RV 'fruit worthy of repentance.' Fruit is a frequent metaphor for works, and a very suitable one. Fruit is not loosely attached to a tree, but is part of it. It derives its...
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...
FRUITS (BETTER, _FRUIT_) MEET FOR REPENTANCE. — The English version is ambiguous and not happy, suggesting the thought of the “fruit” as preparing the way for repentance. The thought is, however, “by...
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...
ποιήσατε οὖν, etc. “If, then, ye are in earnest about escape, produce fruit worthy of repentance; repentance means more than confession and being baptised.” That remark might be applied to all that ca...
_Words of rebuke and warning to unwelcome vistors_ (Luke 3:7-9)....
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...
See note for ver. 2....
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...
THE ABRAHAMIC PATERNITY Matthew 3:8-10, and Luke 3:8-10. O the withering denunciations which leaped from the eloquent lips of John, like lightning from the skirts of the clouds! “Ye generations of vip...
JOHN REJECTS THE HON TONS OF THE CHURCH Matthew 3:7-8; Luke 3:7-8. Among the teeming myriads, here came the Pharisees, with their boasted orthodoxy; and the Sadducees, with their “higher criticism,” c...
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...
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...
_SINS TO BE REPENTED OF_ ‘Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance.’ Matthew 3:8 When we use these words we must be careful that we do not mean ‘Bring forth fruits,’ _ i.e._ do works which...
Matthew 3:8; Luke 3:8._Yield therefore fruits worthy of repentance. _He confirms what I have already said, that the repentance, which is attested by words, is of no value, unless it be proved by the c...
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...
BRING FORTH THEREFORE FRUITS,.... That is, if you are truly penitent, if you have a proper sense of sin, and true repentance for it, do such works as are suitable to it, and will show the genuineness...
Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: Ver. 8. _Bring forth therefore fruits_] _q.d._ You cannot wash your hands in innocence, wash them therefore in tears: there is no way to quench hell...
_Bring forth, therefore, fruits meet for repentance_ That is, a change of temper and behaviour, answerable thereto; _forsake_, as well as _confess_, your sins, and let the integrity, regularity, holin...
FRUITS; show the reality of your repentance by forsaking your sins and obeying the commands of God. In order that repentance may be shown to be sincere, it must produce good works....
BRING FORTH, THEREFORE, FRUITS MEET FOR REPENTANCE. An entire change of heart must precede the performing of truly good works, such as measure up to the standard of an honest repentance, as conform...
Having thus unmasked them, the Baptist makes his demand:...
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...
MEET FOR REPENTANCE: Or, answerable to amendment of life...
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...
You come here and thrust yourselves into a crowd of penitents, but this is not enough, true repentance is not a barren thing; neither are your leaves of external profession a sufficient indication of...
Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus First Homily "that should bring forth fruits meet for repentance,"[6]...
Matthew 3:8 Therefore G3767 bear G4160 (G5657) fruits G2590 worthy G514 repentance G3341 forth -...
“Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance, and think not to say within yourselves, ‘We have Abraham to our father,' for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to...
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....
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...
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...
FRUIT WORTHY OF REPENTANCE (Καρπον αξιον της μετανοιας). John demands proof from these men of the new life before he administers baptism to them. "The fruit is not the change of heart, but the acts...
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...
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._ 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...
DO THE THINGS THAT WILL SHOW. The change in life proves the change in heart. No change means no repentance (James 2:18-23)....
_Fruits meet for repentance._ REPENTANCE A FRUCTIFYING ENERGY. FRUITS FOR REPENTANCE Hear a story, or a parable. In a delightful bit of country, early one summer morning, I walked out to be refreshed...
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...
2 Corinthians 7:10; 2 Corinthians 7:11; 2 Peter 1:4; Acts 26:20;...
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...
Repentance is of two sorts; that which is termed legal, and that which is styled evangelical repentance. The former (which is the same that is spoken of here) is a thorough conviction of sin. The latt...