Luke 3:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; ”

• Luke 3:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  On the baptism of John - see the notes at Matthew 3 .

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• Luke 3:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Luke 3:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  came . went. into. Greek. eis. App-104. preaching . proclaiming. See App-121. baptism . See App-115. repentance. See App-111. for . with. view to. Greek. eis. App-104. the remissio...

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• Luke 3:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Luke 3:3 . Preaching the baptism of repentance This form of expression shows first, generally, what is the right use of the Sacraments; and next, why baptism was instituted, and in what i...

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• Luke 3:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; The baptism of repentance - See on Matthew 3:4-6 (note), and Mark 1:1 (note), etc., a...

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• Luke 3:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And he came into all the country about Jordan— What St. Luke terms the country about Jordan, St. Matthew calls the hill-country of Judea: their accounts maybe illustrated from Josephus, who tel...

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• Luke 3:3 - 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 regi...

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• Luke 3:3 - 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.

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• Luke 3:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Going upward from Zerubbabel and Salathiel, which are common to both genealogies, we come again across a different succession — St. Luke leading us to Nathan as the son of David, and St. Matthew to S...

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• Luke 3:3 - 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 rat...

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• Luke 3:3 - 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...

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• Luke 3:3 - 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 ti...

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• Luke 3:3 - 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 voic...

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• Luke 3:3 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE BAPTIST’S MESSAGE ‘And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.’ Luke 3:3 What is repentance? I. Repentance is that ch...

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• Luke 3:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And he came into all the country about Jordan ,.... He came out of the wilderness of Judea, where he first began his ministry, to some parts of the country that bordered on Jordan, and was near unto...

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• Luke 3:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; Ver. 3. Preaching the baptism of repentance ] John's note was still repentance. Chris...

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• Luke 3:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And he came into all the country about Jordan He made his first public appearance in the wilderness of Judea, Matthew 3:1 ; that is, in the uncultivated and thinly-inhabited parts of the hill-coun...

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• Luke 3:3 - L. 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...

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• Luke 3:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Ministry of John the Baptist.       1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, a...

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• Luke 3:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  How long the time of John's ministry was before he was shut up by Herod in prison the Holy Scriptures do not certainly tell us; but it must be very short, for our Saviour's time was little more than...

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• Luke 3:3 - 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...

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• Luke 3:3 - 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 no...

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• Luke 3:3 - Scofield Reference Notes

  sins Sin ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 3:23 ).

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• Luke 3:3 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  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...

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• Luke 3:3 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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...

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• Luke 3:3 - 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 h...

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• Luke 3:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The country about Jordan-- The river Jordan The river Jordan rises in the Anti-Lebanon, to the north of Jerusalem. Imagine that you are looking, as your glance may be directed towards me, to J...

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• Luke 3:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Luke 3:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;

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• Luke 3:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 13:24 ; Acts 19:4 ; Acts 22:16 ; John 1:28 ; John 1:31-33 ; John 3:26 ; Luke 1:77 ; Mark 1:4 ; Mark 1:5 ; Matthew 3:11 ; Matthew 3:5 ; Matthew 3:6

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• Luke 3:3 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  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...

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