Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 3:38
Adam the son of God — That is, whatever the sons of Adam receive from their human parents, Adam received immediately from God, except sin and misery.
Adam the son of God — That is, whatever the sons of Adam receive from their human parents, Adam received immediately from God, except sin and misery.
See, on this genealogy, the notes at Matthew 1:1....
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...
When Jesus began his ministry he was about thirty years of age. He was the son (as it was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Janna...
THE COURIER OF THE KING (Luke 3:1-6)...
THE SON OF GOD. Because _created_ by God; the angels are so called, for the same reason. See App-28....
The Baptism of Jesus. The Genealogy 21. _Now when all the people were baptized_ The expression (which is peculiar to St Luke) seems to imply that on this day Jesus was baptized _last_; and from the ab...
THE BAPTISM OF JESUS. THE GENEALOGY...
EXCURSUS II THE DOUBLE GENEALOGIES OF CHRIST AS THE SON OF DAVID The general facts are these: (i) The genealogy of our Lord in St Matthew _descends from Abraham_ to Jesus, in accordance with his obj...
Ver 23. And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, 24. Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, whic...
ADAM, WHO WAS THE SON OF GOD.— Adam being descended from no human parents, but formed by the immediate power of the divine creating hand, might with peculiar propriety be called _the Son of God,_ in h...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Scripture_ Luke 3:23-38 And Jesus himself, when he began _to teach,_ was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the _son_ of Heli, 24 the _son_ of...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 The Baptizer's Master (Luke 3:21-38) 21 Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, 22and the Ho...
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...
SON OF ADAM] see on Matthew 1:1....
GENEALOGY OF JESUS. See on Matthew 1:1....
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....
WHICH WAS THE SON OF GOD. — The whole form of the genealogy leads us to apply these words to Adam. Humanity as such, as the result of an immediate creative act, was the offspring of God (Acts 17:28),...
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...
_From Abraham to Adam_. Peculiar to Lk., taken from Genesis 11:12-26; Genesis 5:7-32, as given in the Sept [41], whence Canaan in Luke 3:36 (instead of חלַשָׁ in...
_The age of Jesus when He began His ministry, and His genealogy_....
_The genealogy_. One is surprised to find in Lk. a genealogy at all, until we reflect on his preface with its professed desire for accuracy and thoroughness, and observe the careful manner in which he...
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...
What could be more beautiful, than that this holy race should begin from the Son of God, and be continued up to the Son of God; that the creature might go before in figure, and the Son of God might fo...
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...
2 _d. Luke 3:24-38_. And first, Luke 3:24-27: from Heli to the captivity. In this period Luke mentions 21 generations (up to Neri); only 19, if the various reading of Africanus be admitted; Matthew, 1...
(23) And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, (24) Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which...
REFLECTIONS Reader! where are all those proud monarchs, in the Cesars, and Pilates, and Herods, of the day; whose looks frowned men for the moment into fear; and whose words, and actions, made men tre...
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...
WHICH WAS THE SON OF ENOS,.... Genesis 5:9 WHICH WAS THE SON OF SETH, Genesis 5:6 WHICH WAS THE SON OF ADAM Genesis 5:3 WHICH WAS THE SON OF GOD: not begotten, as all the rest were, by th
Which was _the son_ of Mathusala, which was _the son_ of Enoch, which was _the son_ of Jared, which was _the son_ of Maleleel, which was _the son_ of Cainan, 38 Which was _the son_ of Enos, which was...
_Adam, which was the son of God_ Adam, being descended from no human parents, but formed by the power of a divine creating hand, might with peculiar propriety be called _the son of God_, having, in hi...
WHICH WAS THE SON OF ENOS, WHICH WAS THE SON OF SETH, WHICH WAS THE SON OF ADAM, WHICH WAS THE SON OF GOD. The legal genealogical table of Christ is given by Matthew 1:1, who takes care to establish a...
The genealogy of Jesus:...
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...
23-38 Matthew's list of the forefathers of Jesus showed that Christ was the son of Abraham, in whom all the families of the earth are blessed, and heir to the throne of David; but Luke shows that Jes...
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Luke 3:38 Enos G1800 Seth G4589 Adam G76 God G2316 which was the son of Adam - Genesis 4:25-26,...
JESUS IS THE SON OF DAVID (THE MESSIAH), THE SON OF ABRAHAM (THE SERVANT), THE SON OF ADAM (TRULY MAN), THE SON OF GOD (REVEALING THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD) (3:23-38). There now follows a genealog...
THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES ON JESUS AS THE ONE WHO IS THE SON OF DAVID, THE SON OF ADAM, AND THE SON OF GOD (3:21-38). With this incident Luke turns his concentration to Jesus and His ministry. While what...
ON THE TRANSLATION OF THE GENEALOGY. The formula: ‘which was,' has nothing answering to it, in the original, and ought to be omitted. The spelling of the names has been altered in many cases to accord...
Luke 3:38. THE SON OF GOD. Luke does not add this, to prove that Jesus was the son of God. It implies that Adam was _created directly_ by God, also that he stood in a closer relation to God than other...
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...
WHEN JESUS BEGAN HIS WORK. Luke gives the Genealogy of Jesus, and this is compared with Matthew's Genealogy in notes on Matthew 1:1-17. Luke evidently gives the family record of Mary, since _Heli_ was...
_Which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God_ GENEALOGIES As we glance through the list of names given in these Chapter s (Matthew 1:1. and Luke 3:1.), we see that few could claim a higher d...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 3:23 Luke traces Jesus’ lineage back to Adam to show that Jesus is the fulfillment of the hopes of all people (compare note on Matthew 1:17). The genealogies in...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 3:38 For THE SON OF GOD, see Luke 1:31; Luke 2:11;...
THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS LUKE 3:23-38; MATTHEW 1:1-17 Luke's Genealogy starts at Jesus and goes in reverse to ADAM. Matthew's Genealogy starts at ABRAHAM and goes to Jesus. When the genealogies arrive...
_Which was the son of God_ as handiwork, not as son; for God, even as a potter, formed and fashioned Adam the first man out of the earth. And hence the Arabic version renders " _who was from God_," wh...
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...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 3:21.—This verse seems to imply that the baptism of Jesus was in a measure private—that He was the last to receive the rite on the particular day when He came to John. The reason...
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 Corinthians 15:45; 1 Corinthians 15:47; Acts 17:26; Genesis 1:26;...