Luke 3:18

18 There was a lot more of this - words that gave strength to the people, words that put heart in them. The Message!

Luke 3:18 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 3:18

And many other thing's
Relating to the person and office of the Messiah, to the nature of his kingdom, the Gospel dispensation, and to faith in him; for he pointed him out to the people, and exhorted them to believe in him, and expressed much joy and pleasure on the hearing of his success and increase; and these, with others beside, in his "exhortation", or whilst he was

exhorting,
or "comforting", preached he unto the people:
publishing the Gospel, the good news, and glad tidings of the Messiah's being come, and of life, righteousness, and salvation by him.

Luke 3:18 In-Context

16 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.

17 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."

18 There was a lot more of this - words that gave strength to the people, words that put heart in them. The Message!

19 But Herod, the ruler, stung by John's rebuke in the matter of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife,

20 capped his long string of evil deeds with this outrage: He put John in jail.