“ And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? ”
What shall we do, then? - John had told them to bring forth fruits appropriate to repentance, or to lead a life which showed that their repentance was genuine. They very properly, therefore, aske...
John the Baptist. Mark 1:1-8 *, Matthew 3:1-12 *. also Mark 6:17-29 *, Matthew 14:3-12 *. Lk. now (to Luke 9:50 ) follows the Marcan account of the Galilean ministry of Jesus and its antec...
Luke 3:10 And the multitudes asked him. A true feeling of repentance produces in the mind of the poor sinner an eager desire to know what is the will or command of God. John’s reply explains...
DISCOURSE: 1481 LIBERALITY TO THE POOR Luke 3:10-11 . And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him tha...
And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? What shall we do then? - The preaching of the Baptist had been accompanied with an uncommon effusion of that Spirit which convinces of sin, ri...
What shall we do then?— Ποιησομεν, the same word as that used in Luke 3:8 and rendered bring forth; and consequently it should be translated in the same manner, to make the propriety of the rep...
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 regi...
John's Ministry. Baptism and Genealogy of Jesus 1-14.. Preliminary Ministry of the Baptist ( Matthew 3:1 ; Mark 1:1 ). See on Mt.
And the people asked him... — The questions that follow are peculiar to St. Luke. They are interesting as showing that the work of the Baptist was not that of a mere preacher of repentance. Confess...
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 rat...
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...
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 ti...
(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 voic...
‘WHAT SHALL WE DO?’ ‘And the people asked Him, saying, What shall we do then?’ Luke 3:10 The final stage of religion is duty. Everything else, however comforting, however holy, however true,...
And the people asked him ,.... Not the same as in Luke 3:7 the Sadducees and Pharisees, for they seemed not to be at all affected with, and wrought upon, by the ministry of John; but rather were d...
And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? Ver. 10. What shall we do? ] q.d. What are those fruits worthy of repentance, that we in our places must bring forth? That we may find i...
And the people asked him, What shall we do then? To avoid the judgments of God. He answereth, He that hath two coats , &c. Be careful, not only to observe the ceremonies of religion, but to at...
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...
Ministry of John the Baptist. 1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, a...
Ver. 10,11. Although the preaching of the law doth not immediately conduce to work in us faith in Christ, yet mediately it doth, as it brings men to cry out, as those Acts 2:37 , Men and brethren...
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...
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 no...
Luke 3:2-14 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 a...
Luke 3:1-7 . 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 o...
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 h...
What shall we do then? Common sense applied to everyday duties I. JOHN DISCRIMINATES BETWEEN THE EASE-HARDENED, SELFISH, AND SCARCELY REACHABLE PHARISEES AND HIGH-PLACED REPRESENTATIVES OF OFFI...
EXPOSITION Luke 3:1-42 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 his...
And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
Acts 16:30 ; Acts 2:37 ; Acts 9:6 ; Luke 3:8
John the Forerunner Luke 3:1-18 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 sha...
He answereth — It is not properly John, but the Holy Ghost, who teaches us in the following answers, how to come ourselves, and how to instruct other penitent sinners to come to Christ, that he may...