Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
Luke 3:21-38
THE BAPTISM OF JESUS. THE GENEALOGY
THE BAPTISM OF JESUS. THE GENEALOGY
Verse Luke 3:21. _JESUS - BEING BAPTIZED_] See on Luke 3:16; Luke 3:17....
See the notes at Matthew 3:13. “Jesus being baptized;” or, Jesus “having been” baptized. This took place after the baptism, and not “during” its administration, Matthew 3:16. PRAYING - This circumstan...
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...
LUKE 3:21 F. THE BAPTISM OF JESUS (Mark 1:9 *, Matthew 3:13 *). Lk. notes that Jesus was praying (_cf. Luke 9:29_,...
THE COURIER OF THE KING (Luke 3:1-6)...
When all the people had been baptized and when Jesus too had been baptized, as he was praying, the heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit in bodily form like a dove came down upon him and there was a v...
IT CAME TO PASS. As in Luke 3:1. The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads "and it came to pass". PRAYING. Note the occasions of the Lord's praying: here; Luke 6:16; Luke 6:12;...
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...
VER 1A. 21. NOW WHEN ALL THE PEOPLE WERE BAPTIZED, IT CAME TO PASS, THAT JESUS ALSO BEING BAPTIZED, AND PRAYING, THE HEAVEN WAS OPENED, 22. AND THE HOLY GHOST DESCENDED IN A BODILY SHAPE LIKE A DOVE U...
ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться, случаться (_см._ Luke 1:8). ΒΑΠΤΙΣΘΉΝΑΙ _aor. pass. inf., см._ Luke 3:16. _Inf._ используется с предлогом, выражающим время, ΒΑΠΤΙΣΘΈΝ...
DISCOURSE: 1484 THE DESCENT OF THE SPIRIT UPON CHRIST Luke 3:21. _Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened; and the H...
NOW WHEN ALL THE PEOPLE WERE BAPTIZED,— _Now while all the people were receiving baptism._ Heylin. If we reflect on the number of the people who followed John, and were baptized by him, and the regard...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Baptism of Jesus Scripture_ Luke 3:21-22 Now it came to pass, when all the people were baptized, that, Jesus also having been baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,...
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...
Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, For the exposition, see the notes at Matthew 3:13....
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....
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....
(21-22) NOW WHEN ALL THE PEOPLE WERE BAPTIZED. — See Notes on Matthew 3:13. St. Luke’s account is the shortest of the three first Gospels, but it adds here, as afterwards in his report of the Transfig...
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...
_The baptism of Jesus_ (Matthew 3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11). ἐν τῷ βαπτισθῆναι : the aorist ought to imply that the bulk of the people had already been baptised before Jesus appeared on the scene, _i.e._, t...
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...
(5) Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, (5) Our baptism is sanctified in the head of the Church, and Christ als...
The motive of his baptism, as he himself informs us, was, that he himself might fulfil all justice. What is here meant by justice, but that obligation of doing first ourselves what we wish others to d...
THE BAPTISM OF JESUS Matthew 3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-23. _“Then Jesus comes from Galilee unto Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.”_ Our Lord was six months younger than John, and hence He a...
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...
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...
SECOND NARRATIVE: THE BAPTISM OF JESUS, LUKE 3:21-22. The relation between John and Jesus, as described by St. Luke, resembles that of two stars following each other at a short distance, and both pass...
(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...
_THE FIRST CALVARY_ ‘How when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a...
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...
NOW WHEN ALL THE PEOPLE WERE BAPTIZED,.... That came from several parts to John for this purpose, even as many as he judged to be proper subjects of that ordinance, as many of the common people, publi...
Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, Ver. 21. _And praying, the heaven was opened_] Prayer is the key of God's k...
_When all the people were baptized_ If we reflect on the number of the people who followed John, and were baptized by him, and the regard they expressed for him before and after his death, and yet tha...
John's imprisonment-Christ baptized. Matthew 14:1-13; Matthew 3:13-17...
NOW, WHEN ALL THE PEOPLE WERE BAPTIZED, IT CAME TO PASS THAT JESUS ALSO BEING BAPTIZED AND PRAYING, THE HEAVEN WAS OPENED,...
THE BAPTISM AND GENEALOGY OF CHRIST. Luke 3:21 The baptism 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...
21,22 Christ did not confess sin, as others did, for he had none to confess; but he prayed, as others did, and kept up communion with his Father. Observe, all the three voices from heaven, by which t...
Ver. 21,22. This history of our Saviour's baptism is reported both by Matthew and Mark, much most largely by Matthew; SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 3:13"., &c. Luke only addeth those words, AND PRAYING, which...
Pseudo-Tertullian Against All Heresies came down on Jesus;[66] The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour And from this day He began to hide His miracles and mysteries and secrets, and to give...
Luke 3:21 When G1161 all G537 people G2992 baptized G1722 G907 (G5683) pass G1096 (G5633) Jesus...
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...
THE BAPTISM OF JESUS (3:21-22). Apart from here there is nothing in any of the Gospels which explains why Jesus began His work when He did. There must have been something that prompted Him to leave th...
Luke 3:21. Luke's account of the baptism of Jesus is concise, but we have some new details. WHEN ALL THE PEOPLE WERE BAPTISED. These baptisms preceded that of our Lord; probably few were present on...
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...
WHEN ALL THE PEOPLE WERE BAPTISED (εν τω βαπτισθηνα απαντα τον λαον). The use of the articular aorist infinitive here with εν bothers some grammarians and commentators. There is no element of time i...
Luke 3:21 Christ's Baptism, a Token of Pentecost. Without all question, there is a deep and mysterious connection between the baptism of our Saviour and the coming of the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles...
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...
JESUS ALSO WAS BAPTIZED. See notes on Matthew 3:13-17. Luke alone points out that Jesus was praying when heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit came down like a dove. Luke shows Jesus praying at each c...
_Jesus also being baptized--_ MEETING OF JESUS WITH JOHN The people, I read, “mused,” wondering if John were the expected Messiah. John, too, mused, we may be sure. “Words! words! words!” at the end...
JESUS ' BAPTISM MATTHEW 3:13-17; MARK 1:9-11; LUKE 3:21-22; MATTHEW 3:13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptize
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...
John 1:32; John 1:32; John 12:27; John 12:28; Luke 9:28;...
Was opened [α ν ε ω χ θ η ν α ι]. So Matthew, but Mark scizomenouv, rent....
Jesus praying, the heaven was opened — It is observable, that the three voices from heaven, see Luke 9:29, Luke 9:35; John 12:28; by which the Father bore witness to Christ, were pronounced either whi...
Observe, 1. The great condescension of Christ in seeking and submitting to the baptism of John. Christ, though John's Lord and Master, yet yields to be baptized of his servant and messenger. Observe,...