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17 His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and agather the wheat into His barn; but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire.”  
18 And with many other exhortations he preached to the people.
19 aBut Herod the tetrarch, being rebuked by him concerning Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,  
20 also added this, above all, that he shut John up in prison.

John Baptizes Jesus

21 When all the people were baptized, ait came to pass that Jesus also was baptized; and while He prayed, the heaven was opened.  
22 And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, “You are My beloved Son; in You I am awell pleased.”  
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Luke 3:19

Reproved (elegxomenov). Present passive participle of elegxw, an old verb meaning in Homer to treat with contempt, then to convict (Matthew 18:15), to expose (Ephesians 5:11), to reprove as here. The substantive elegxov means proof (Hebrews 11:1) and elegmov, censure (II Timothy 3:16). Josephus (Ant. XVIII. V.4) shows how repulsive this marriage was to Jewish feeling.

Evil things (ponhrwn). Incorporated into the relative sentence. The word is from ponos, ponew, toil, work, and gives the active side of evil, possibly with the notion of work itself as evil or at least an annoyance. The "evil eye" (ofqalmov ponhrov in Mark 7:22) was a "mischief working eye" (Vincent). In Matthew 6:23 it is a diseased eye. So Satan is "the evil one" (Matthew 5:37; Matthew 6:13, etc.). It is a very common adjective in the N.T. as in the older Greek.

Had done (epoihsen). Aorist active indicative, not past perfect, merely a summary constative aorist,

he did.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 3:19:

John 3:24
John 4:1
Acts 10:9

 

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