John the Baptist Preaching to the Crowdby CBPepper
3:18Luke 3:18
And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.
Luke 3:18 means that John preached many further exhortations and appeals to the people beyond the specific instructions recorded nearby about sharing, tax collecting, and soldiers. His preaching called the people to conversion and to bear fruit as trees in the Lord's vineyard. It included direct rebuke addressed to people in every station, including reproving Herod for his marriage to Herodias and for all his other evils, with warning of future judgment according to each person's works.
This exhorting preaching fulfills the promise of the coming Redeemer announced to Zacharias at the golden altar in the holy place, where the angel standing on the right side as a sign of favor declared that the long-offered prayers with the incense and the prayers of Israel were about to be answered. The warning applied from this preaching is that those who continue to disappoint Christ's expectation face the sentence to be cut down, as taught in Luke 13:7.
Luke 3:18 means that John preached many further exhortations and appeals to the people beyond the specific instructions recorded nearby about sharing, tax collecting, and soldiers. His preaching called the people to conversion and to bear fruit as trees in the Lord's vineyard. It included direct rebuke addressed to people in every station, including reproving Herod for his marriage to Herodias and for all his other evils, with warning of future judgment according to each person's works.
This exhorting preaching fulfills the promise of the coming Redeemer announced to Zacharias at the golden altar in the holy place, where the angel standing on the right side as a sign of favor declared that the long-offered prayers with the incense and the prayers of Israel were about to be answered. The warning applied from this preaching is that those who continue to disappoint Christ's expectation face the sentence to be cut down, as taught in Luke 13:7.