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Quotes & Notes on:
Luke 3:10
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Sharing our faith, not only its content
but its benefits, is the way to experience the greater joys of our
salvation. Many are willing to share their opinions and
beliefs with others, but John's emphasis was on sharing the very
substance of God's blessings. These practical areas of caring
service and material assistance are the fulfillment of Biblical
teachings, referred to by John as the "fruits worthy of repentance."
We prepare the way for Christ by repenting of our sins and adopting
the teachings of Jesus in their stead. - Br. Bill |
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John Wesley, Notes On the New Testament (1755):
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 give them rest. The sum of all this is, Cease to do
evil, learn to do well. These are the fruits worthy of repentance.
- Reginald Fuller's
Preaching the Lectionary (1984):
In the Book of Common Prayer, the old collect for this day drew an
analogy between this self-effacing work of the Baptist and the work of
the "ministers and stewards," whose function is to point men and women
away from themselves to Christ, and so to prepare them for his coming,
both at Christmas and at the last day, by preaching repentance.
These considerations might lead the homilist to speak of confession and
amendment of life in preparation for Christmas.
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William Baird,
Interpreter's Commentary, 1971:
In a passage which has no
parallel Luke describes what this [repentance] means. The
multitudes ask, What shall we do? John answers that those who have
abundance should share with the needy: this is true for both
food and clothing. Representatives of various groups now come to
inquire what the fruit of their repentance should be.
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J. McNicol, The New Bible
Commentary, 1954:
(No comment on this verse).
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I.H. Marshall, The New
Bible Commentary, 1970:
(No comment on this verse).
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David Guzik,
Study Guide for Luke:
John’s instructions are quite ordinary: he demands that people share,
and that they be fair with each other, and that they do not be mean and
cruel; that they be happy with what they get. These are things we teach
our smallest children!
i. Integrity in the ordinary things
is still the best mark of one genuinely repenting; we often think that
what God requires of us as an impossible, huge task. In reality, the
things God tells us to do are very simple and straightforward.
ii. He has shown you, O man, what is
good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love
mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah
6:8)
iii. Often we are more willing to be
faithful in great, dramatic tasks than in the ordinary things.
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Chuck Smith,
Study Guide
for Luke:
As we find his responses to the questions, we find that John was
preaching a social gospel.
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Catechism of the Catholic
Church:
John preaches "a
baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins." A crowd of
sinners -- tax collectors and soldiers, Pharisees and Sadducees, and
prostitutes -- come to be baptized by him. (535)
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J. Norval Geldenhuys,
Bible Expositor, 1960:
(No comment on this verse).
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Abingdon Bible Commentary
(1929):
As [Luke] tells of the experiment in
voluntary communism made by the first Christians in Jerusalem (Acts 2:43
ff), he is glad to recall the fact that John bade his converts share the
necessaries of life.
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D.D. Whedon, Commentary
on Luke, 1866:
He had bidden the multitude, in verse 8, to
bring forth fruits meet for repentance under penalties prescribed in
verse 9. In verse 10 they ask him, What shall we do then?
that is, as works meet for repentance in order to avoid the threatened
wrath. John replies to each question by pointing them to their
besetting sins, and enjoining reformation to test the sincerity of their
repentance.
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Joseph Parker, People's
Bible, 1901:
To
be posted.
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The Fourfold Gospel:
This is the cry of the awakened conscience
(Ac 2:37; 16:30; 22:10). John answered it by recommending them to do the
very reverse of what they were doing, which, in their case, was true
fruit of repentance.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:
What. Lu 3:8; Ac 2:37; 9:6; 16:30.
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Robertson's Word Pictures:
Asked (epêrôtôn). Imperfect
tense, repeatedly asked. What then must we do? (ti oun poiêsômen;).
Deliberative aorist subjunctive. More exactly, What then are we to do,
What then shall we do? Same construction in verses Lu 3:12,14. The oun
refers to the severe things already said by John (Lu 3:7-9).
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William Burkitt's Notes:
The Baptist having pressed his hearers to
bring forth fruits meet for repentance, here they enquire of him what
fruits they should bring forth? He tells first the fruits of charity and
mercy: He that hath two coats, let him give to him that hath none. This
is not to be understood strictly, as if the command required us to give
the clothes off our back to every one that wanted them. But it directs
those that have the things of this life in abundance, to distribute and
communicate to those that are in want.
Learn hence, that an extensive liberality, and a diffusive charity in
distributing such things as we can well spare towards the relief of
others' necessities, is an excellent fruit of repentance, and a good
proof and evidence of the truth and sincerity of it. Let him that hath
two coats impart to him that hath none.
Note, that the Baptist here doth not make it unlawful for a man to have
two coats, but means only, that he that has one coat which his brother
wants, and he at present doth not, should rather give it him, than
suffer him to be in want of it.
Teaching us, that it is not lawful to abound in those things which our
brother wants, when we have sufficient both to relieve his and our
necessities.
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Family Bible Notes:
What shall we do? that is, in order to
bring forth fruits worthy of repentance. Verse Lu 3:8. He enjoins upon
each class of his hearers repentance, and the fruits of repentance
appropriate to their condition in life. That repentance which is unto
life, leads men to desire a knowledge of their duty for the purpose of
performing it, to break off their sins, and to engage in doing good, as
they have opportunity, to the bodies and souls of men..
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1599 Geneva Bible Notes:
(No comment on this verse).
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People's New Testament Commentary:
What shall we do? Note, (1) Those that are
baptized must be taught; and those who have baptized them are concerned,
as they have opportunity, to teach them (Mt 28:19,20). (2) In John's
answer we have his moral system. His morality differs from that of the
Lord, inasmuch as the former lays more stress upon the regulation of the
external conduct, while Jesus lays more upon that of the inner life.
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Albert Barnes' Commentary:
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, asked how it
should be done, or what would be such a life.
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Jamieson-Faussett Brown:
What shall we do then?--to show the sincerity of our repentance.
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Spurgeon Devotional
Commentary:
(No comment on this verse).
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Adam Clarke's Commentary:
The preaching of the Baptist had been accompanied with an uncommon
effusion of that Spirit which convinces of sin, righteousness, and
judgment. The people who heard him now earnestly begin to inquire what
they must do to be saved? They are conscious that they are exposed to
the judgments of the Lord, and they wish to escape from the coming
wrath.
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:
(No comment on this verse).
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