3rd Sunday of Advent - Year C - Lectionary [LivingWeb]

Quotes & Notes on: Luke 3:10

Sharing our faith, not only its content but its benefits, is the way to experience the greater joys of our salvation. Many are willing to share their opinions and beliefs with others, but John's emphasis was on sharing the very substance of God's blessings. These practical areas of caring service and material assistance are the fulfillment of Biblical teachings, referred to by John as the "fruits worthy of repentance." We prepare the way for Christ by repenting of our sins and adopting the teachings of Jesus in their stead. - Br. Bill

John Wesley, Notes On the New Testament (1755):
He answereth-It is not properly John, but the Holy Ghost, who teaches us in the following answers, how to come ourselves, and how to instruct other penitent sinners to come to Christ, that he may give them rest. The sum of all this is, Cease to do evil, learn to do well. These are the fruits worthy of repentance.

Reginald Fuller's Preaching the Lectionary (1984):
In the Book of Common Prayer, the old collect for this day drew an analogy between this self-effacing work of the Baptist and the work of the "ministers and stewards," whose function is to point men and women away from themselves to Christ, and so to prepare them for his coming, both at Christmas and at the last day, by preaching repentance. These considerations might lead the homilist to speak of confession and amendment of life in preparation for Christmas.

William Baird, Interpreter's Commentary, 1971:
In a passage which has no parallel Luke describes what this [repentance] means. The multitudes ask, What shall we do? John answers that those who have abundance should share with the needy:   this is true for both food and clothing. Representatives of various groups now come to inquire what the fruit of their repentance should be.

J. McNicol, The New Bible Commentary, 1954:
(No comment on this verse).

I.H. Marshall, The New Bible Commentary, 1970:
(No comment on this verse).

David Guzik, Study Guide for Luke:
John’s instructions are quite ordinary: he demands that people share, and that they be fair with each other, and that they do not be mean and cruel; that they be happy with what they get. These are things we teach our smallest children!

i. Integrity in the ordinary things is still the best mark of one genuinely repenting; we often think that what God requires of us as an impossible, huge task. In reality, the things God tells us to do are very simple and straightforward.

ii. He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8)

iii. Often we are more willing to be faithful in great, dramatic tasks than in the ordinary things.

Chuck Smith, Study Guide for Luke:
As we find his responses to the questions, we find that John was preaching a social gospel.

Catechism of the Catholic Church:
John preaches "a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins." A crowd of sinners -- tax collectors and soldiers, Pharisees and Sadducees, and prostitutes -- come to be baptized by him. (535)

J. Norval Geldenhuys, Bible Expositor, 1960:
(No comment on this verse).

Abingdon Bible Commentary (1929):
As [Luke] tells of the experiment in voluntary communism made by the first Christians in Jerusalem (Acts 2:43 ff), he is glad to recall the fact that John bade his converts share the necessaries of life.

D.D. Whedon, Commentary on Luke, 1866:
He had bidden the multitude, in verse 8, to bring forth fruits meet for repentance under penalties prescribed in verse 9. In verse 10 they ask him, What shall we do then? that is, as works meet for repentance in order to avoid the threatened wrath. John replies to each question by pointing them to their besetting sins, and enjoining reformation to test the sincerity of their repentance.

Joseph Parker, People's Bible, 1901:
To be posted.

The Fourfold Gospel:
This is the cry of the awakened conscience (Ac 2:37; 16:30; 22:10). John answered it by recommending them to do the very reverse of what they were doing, which, in their case, was true fruit of repentance.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:
What. Lu 3:8; Ac 2:37; 9:6; 16:30.

Robertson's Word Pictures:
Asked (epêrôtôn). Imperfect tense, repeatedly asked. What then must we do? (ti oun poiêsômen;). Deliberative aorist subjunctive. More exactly, What then are we to do, What then shall we do? Same construction in verses Lu 3:12,14. The oun refers to the severe things already said by John (Lu 3:7-9).

William Burkitt's Notes:
The Baptist having pressed his hearers to bring forth fruits meet for repentance, here they enquire of him what fruits they should bring forth? He tells first the fruits of charity and mercy: He that hath two coats, let him give to him that hath none. This is not to be understood strictly, as if the command required us to give the clothes off our back to every one that wanted them. But it directs those that have the things of this life in abundance, to distribute and communicate to those that are in want.

Learn hence, that an extensive liberality, and a diffusive charity in distributing such things as we can well spare towards the relief of others' necessities, is an excellent fruit of repentance, and a good proof and evidence of the truth and sincerity of it. Let him that hath two coats impart to him that hath none.

Note, that the Baptist here doth not make it unlawful for a man to have two coats, but means only, that he that has one coat which his brother wants, and he at present doth not, should rather give it him, than suffer him to be in want of it.

Teaching us, that it is not lawful to abound in those things which our brother wants, when we have sufficient both to relieve his and our necessities.

Family Bible Notes:
What shall we do? that is, in order to bring forth fruits worthy of repentance. Verse Lu 3:8. He enjoins upon each class of his hearers repentance, and the fruits of repentance appropriate to their condition in life. That repentance which is unto life, leads men to desire a knowledge of their duty for the purpose of performing it, to break off their sins, and to engage in doing good, as they have opportunity, to the bodies and souls of men..

1599 Geneva Bible Notes:
(No comment on this verse).

People's New Testament Commentary:
What shall we do? Note, (1) Those that are baptized must be taught; and those who have baptized them are concerned, as they have opportunity, to teach them (Mt 28:19,20). (2) In John's answer we have his moral system. His morality differs from that of the Lord, inasmuch as the former lays more stress upon the regulation of the external conduct, while Jesus lays more upon that of the inner life.

Albert Barnes' Commentary:
What shall we do, then? John had told them to bring forth fruits appropriate to repentance, or to lead a life which showed that their repentance was genuine. They very properly, therefore, asked how it should be done, or what would be such a life.

Jamieson-Faussett Brown:
What shall we do then?--to show the sincerity of our repentance.

Spurgeon Devotional Commentary:
(No comment on this verse).

Adam Clarke's Commentary:
The preaching of the Baptist had been accompanied with an uncommon effusion of that Spirit which convinces of sin, righteousness, and judgment. The people who heard him now earnestly begin to inquire what they must do to be saved? They are conscious that they are exposed to the judgments of the Lord, and they wish to escape from the coming wrath.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:
(No comment on this verse).

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