Luke 3:10-18 (The Message)
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The crowd asked him, "Then what are we supposed to do?"
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"If you have two coats, give one away," he said. "Do the same with your food."
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Tax men also came to be baptized and said, "Teacher, what should we do?"
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He told them, "No more extortion - collect only what is required by law."
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Soldiers asked him, "And what should we do?" He told them, "No shakedowns, no blackmail - and be content with your rations."
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The interest of the people by now was building. They were all beginning to wonder, "Could this John be the Messiah?"
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But John intervened: "I'm baptizing you here in the river. The main character in this drama, to whom I'm a mere stagehand, will ignite the kingdom life, a fire, the Holy Spirit within you, changing you from the inside out.
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He's going to clean house - make a clean sweep of your lives. He'll place everything true in its proper place before God; everything false he'll put out with the trash to be burned."
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There was a lot more of this - words that gave strength to the people, words that put heart in them. The Message!
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved. (The Message)
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Geneva Study Bible
John Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament
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- Luke 3:10
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- Luke 3:12
- Luke 3:13
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- Luke 3:15
- Luke 3:16
- Luke 3:17
- Luke 3:18
Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Complete)
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People's New Testament
Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament
Scofield Reference Notes (1917 Edition)
The Fourfold Gospel
Treasury Of Scripture Knowledge
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- Luke 3:10
- Luke 3:11
- Luke 3:12
- Luke 3:13
- Luke 3:14
- Luke 3:15
- Luke 3:16
- Luke 3:17
- Luke 3:18
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