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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Luke 3:7

This saint of the desert, seeing all the inhabitants of Palestine surrounding and admiring him, was not elated with the honour, but openly and severely rebuked them. (St. John Chrysostom, hom. xi. on S. Matt) --- According to St. Matthew, the Baptist addressed these words principally to the Pharisees and Sadducees, there and then present.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    ON THE BAPTISM OF JOHN - see the notes at Matthew 3....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE COURIER OF THE KING (Luke 3:1-6)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THEN SAID HE. He said therefore. MULTITUDE. crowds. BAPTIZED. App-115. OF. by. Greek. _hupo._ App-104. Not the sameword as in verses: Luke 3:8; Luke 3:15. GENERATION. offspring, or brood. WARNED....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _to the multitude_ Rather, MULTITUDES. Different crowds came from different directions, Matthew 3:5; Mark 1:5. _O generation of vipers_ Rather, BROODS OF VIPERS. They were like "serpents born of serpe...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΤΟΙ͂Σ ὌΧΛΟΙΣ, ‘to the multitudes.’ Different crowds came from different directions, Matthew 3:5; Mark 1:5. This discourse falls into three sections (1) the warning (7–9); (2) the practical exhortation...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    Luke 3:1-9. BAPTISM AND PREACHING OF JOHN THE BAPTIST...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    Ver 7. Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8. Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repenta...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΒΑΠΤΙΣΘΉΝΑΙ _aor. pass. inf. от_ ΒΑΠΤΊΖΩ (G907) крестить (см Matthew 3:6). _Inf._ цели, ΈΧΙΔΝΏΝ _gen. pl._ от ΈΧΙΔΝΑ (G2191) змея, ядовитая змея. Это выражение призвано передать отталкивающий и разру...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    O GENERATION— _Ye brood._ Some would read the last clause, τις υποδειξει ;_—Who will warn you to flee?_ A mere servile fear of punishment, says Dr. Heylin, was not a sufficient motive to a total refor...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOHN'S MINISTRY. BAPTISM AND GENEALOGY OF JESUS 1-14.. Preliminary Ministry of the Baptist (Matthew 3:1; Mark 1:1). See on Mt....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (3-9) AND HE CAME INTO ALL THE COUNTRY... — The words paint the mission-work of John somewhat more vividly than those of St. Matthew and St. Mark, who represent the people flocking to Him from Jerusal...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEN SAID HE TO THE MULTITUDE. — Better, _multitudes._ In St. Matthew the words “Generation” (or _brood_) “of vipers” are related, probably with greater accuracy, as having been addressed specifically...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _John's preaching_ (_cf._ Matthew 3:7-10). Lk. gives no account of John's aspect and mode of life, leaving that to be inferred from Luke 1:80. On the other hand he enters into more detail in regard to...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    ἐκπορευομένοις ὄχλοις : what Mt. represents as addressed specially to the Pharisees and Sadducees, Lk. less appropriately gives as spoken to the general crowd. Note that here, as in the other synoptis...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    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...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    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...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    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....

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    SECOND PART: THE ADVENT OF THE MESSIAH, LUKE 3:1 TO LUKE 4:13. For eighteen years Jesus lived unknown in the seclusion of Nazareth. His fellow townsmen, recalling this period of His life, designate Hi...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    “ _Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?_ 8 _Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentanc...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    As to the loud and open rebuke, which was administered to them in presence of all, it was for the sake of others; and that is the reason why Luke mentions, that it was addressed to _multitudes, _(Luke...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN SAID HE TO THE MULTITUDE,.... That is, John, as the Ethiopic version reads; and the multitude to whom he spake the following words, were many of the Pharisees and Sadducees, as appears from Matth...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Ver. 7. _See Trapp on "_ Mat 3:7 _"_...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then said he to the multitude, O generation of vipers_ See note on Matthew 3:7. _Bring forth, therefore, fruits worthy of repentance_ The Baptist did not stop at preaching repentance, and rest satisf...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    John's preaching. Matthew 3:7-12....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THEN SAID HE TO THE MULTITUDE THAT CAME FORTH TO BE BAPTIZED OF HIM, O GENERATION OF VIPERS, WHO HATH WARNED YOU TO FLEE FROM THE WRATH TO COME?...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    John's preaching:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 3:4...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen Again, therefore, some venomous and false hypocrites, who plotted against righteousness, He once called "a brood of vipers."[6] Clement of Alexandria...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Luke 3:7 Then G3767 said G3004 (G5707) multitudes G3793 out G1607 (G5740) baptized G907 (G5683) by...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptised by him, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Luke 3:7-9. See on Matthew 3:7-10. MULTITUDES. Matthew: ‘many of the Pharisees and Sadducees.' In this case as in that of every popular preacher, many of the hearers were attracted by idle curiosity...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    TO THE MULTITUDE THAT WENT OUT (τοις εξπορευομενοις οχλοις). Plural,MULTITUDES . The present participle also notes the repetition of the crowds as does ελεγεν (imperfect), he used to say. Matthew...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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....

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    YOU SNAKES! John said this to the Pharisees (Matthew 3:7)....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then said he to the multitude that came forth_ JOHN AND THE POPULACE It is a matter of some interest, even as a memoir of ancient manners, to conceive the various and strikingly marked aspect of th...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 3:7 VIPERS. Poisonous snakes. WHO WARNED YOU TO FLEE? That is, “Who has told you to flee the coming wrath by merely submitting to a rite of baptism?”...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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 ...

  • The Gospels Compared

    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,...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 3:8; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; Acts 13:10; Genesis 3:15; Hebrews 6

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    He said [ε λ ε γ ε ν] to the multitudes that came forth [ε κ π ο ρ ε υ ο μ ε ν ο ι ς]. The use of the tenses is graphic. He said, the imperfect, and came forth, the present participle; both denoting a...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Matthew 3:7-8 says, that the Baptist spake these words to the Pharisees and Sadducees, whom he gives, first,. quick and cutting compellation, O GENERATION OF VIPERS: then. sharp and severe reprehensio...

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