(singular) much (in any respect) or (plural) many · adjective — accusative plural neuter
things
ἕτεραhetera
G2087
(an- · adjective — accusative plural neuter
exhortation
παρακαλῶνparakalōn
G3870
to call near · verb — present active participle, nominative singular masculine
he
εὐηγγελίζετοeuēngelizeto
G2097
to announce good news ("evangelize") especially the gos… · verb — imperfect middle indicative, 3rd person singular
people
λαόν.¶laon
G2992
a people (in general · noun — accusative singular masculine
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Acts 2:40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John 1:34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
John 3:29-36 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the…
John 1:15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Luke 3:15-20
We are now drawing near to the appearance of our Lord Jesus publicly; the Sun will not be long after the morning-star. We are here told,
I. How the people took occasion, from the ministry and baptism of John, to think of the Messiah, and to think of him as at the door, as now come. Thus the way of the Lord was prepared, and people were prepared to bid Christ welcome; for, when men's expectations are raised, that which they are in expectation of becomes doubly acceptable. Now when they observed what an excellent doctrine John Baptist preached, what a divine power went along with it, and what a tendency it had to reform the world, 1. They began presently to consider that now was the time for t…
many other things, &c.--such as we read in Joh 1:29, Joh 1:33-34; Joh 3:27-36. (Also see on Mat 3:12.)
Adam Clarke on Luke 3:16
On these verses see Mat 3:11, Mat 3:12, and Mar 1:7, Mar 1:8, and particularly the note on Joh 3:5 (note).
John Gill on 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.
John Calvin on Luke 3:15-18
Luke 3:15-18
Matthew 3:11-12
Mark 1:7-8
Luke 3:15-18
11. I indeed baptize you with water to repentance: but he who cometh after me is stronger than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire. 12. Whose winnowing-fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his thrashing-floor, and will collect the wheat into his barn: but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
7. And he preached, saying, One cometh after me, that latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and loose. 8. I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
15. And while the people were waiting, and while all we…
The Church Fathers
John having announced the coming of Christ, was preaching the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and the other things which the Gospel history has handed down to us. But besides these he is declared to have announced others in the following words, And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people. And as in the Gospel according to St. John it is related of Christ that He spoke many other things, so also in this place we must understand Luke to say the same of John the Baptist, since certain things are announced by John too great to be entrusted to writing.
He who teaches the word of the Gospel proclaims not one thing but very many. For this is what Scripture signifies when it says: "now with many other exhortations also he was proclaiming good news". And so John was preaching to the people "other" things as well, which are not written down; but the things that are written—consider how many they were. He proclaimed Christ, he pointed him out, he preached the baptism of the Holy Spirit; he taught the tax collectors salvation, the soldiers discipline, that the threshing floor is to be cleansed, that the trees are to be cut down, and the rest that the narrative of the Gospel relates. Therefore, apart from these things that are written, he is shown to have proclaimed still other things that are not written, in that it is said: "now with many other exhortations also he was proclaiming good news to the people". And just as in the Gospel according to John it is reported concerning Christ that he spoke many other things also, "which are not written in this book", "which, if they were written, I do not think that the world itself could contain the books that would have to be written": so also in the present passage understand that Luke perhaps, since certain things greater than ought to be committed to letters were being proclaimed by John, was unwilling to state them by name, but only indicated that they had been spoken, and therefore said: "now with many other exhortations also he was proclaiming good news to the people".
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Mary — Hebrew Miriam. (1.) The wife of Joseph, the mother of Jesus, called the “Virgin Mary,” though never so designated in Scripture (Matt. 2:11; Acts 1:14). Little is known of her personal history. Her…
John · him, and beheads him — him, and beheads him
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
After being harvested, the kernels of wheat would be beaten off the stalks and then tossed in the air with a winnowing fork to separate them from the chaff. The heavy grain would fall to the ground as the lighter chaff blew away. This is an image of separation for judgment. • never-ending fire: See Isa 66:24.
