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Verse 7. - 9. On this account of the Baptist's _mode_ of _preaching_,
see Clarke's notes on Matthew 3:7....
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ON THE BAPTISM OF JOHN - see the notes at Matthew 3....
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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...
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JOHN THE BAPTIST. Mark 1:1 *, Matthew 3:1 *. also Mark 6:17 *, Matthew
14:3 *. Lk. now (to...
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THE COURIER OF THE KING (Luke 3:1-6)...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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Luke 3:1-9. BAPTISM AND PREACHING OF JOHN THE BAPTIST...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 2
The Baptizer's Message (Luke 3:7-14)
7 He said therefore to the multitudes that came out to be baptized by
him, You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath...
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_The Ministry of John the Baptist
Scripture_
Luke 3:1-20 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,
Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetra...
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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...
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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...
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JOHN'S MINISTRY. BAPTISM AND GENEALOGY OF JESUS
1-14.. Preliminary Ministry of the Baptist (Matthew 3:1; Mark 1:1).
See on Mt....
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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....
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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“ _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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 _"_...
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_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...
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John's preaching. Matthew 3:7-12....
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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?...
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John's preaching:...
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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...
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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...
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SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 3:4...
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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...
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Luke 3:7 Then G3767 said G3004 (G5707) multitudes G3793 out G1607
(G5740) baptized G907 (G5683) by...
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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...
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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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YOU SNAKES! John said this to the Pharisees (Matthew 3:7)....
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_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...
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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?”...
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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 ...
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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,...
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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...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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1 John 3:8; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; Acts 13:10; Genesis 3:15; Hebrews 6
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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...
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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...
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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...