From 569a36fe356cccd26133f0c24f7db5b75d5878d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rogerw Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 18:42:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update '43-luk/03.md' --- 43-luk/03.md | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/43-luk/03.md b/43-luk/03.md index df7a731..c85e58d 100644 --- a/43-luk/03.md +++ b/43-luk/03.md @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ See Map: Israel The only thing that is known about Lysanias is that Luke said he was ruler of Abilene at this time. Abilene was place north of Mt. Hermon. Perhaps he was another son of Herod the Great. He ruled a “fourth”(τετρααρχέω/g5075) of the area that his father ruled. See: [King Herod](../articles/kingherod.md) + See Map: Israel ### Why did Luke give the names of Roman and Jewish rulers at the time of John the Baptist? @@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ See: [Prophet](../articles/prophet.md) ### Why was John’s baptism different than other kinds of baptism? See: [Baptize (Baptism)](../articles/baptize.md); [Repent (Repentance)](../articles/repent.md); [Messiah (Christ)](../articles/messiahchrist.md); [Clean and Unclean](../articles/cleanunclean.md) + See Map: Jordan ### How did Luke write about repenting? @@ -52,6 +54,7 @@ See Map: Jordan “Repentance”(μετάνοια/g3341) is a turning, in the same way when someone turns from facing one way to facing another way. Some scholars think that it means to stop dishonoring God and to turn to follow a path that honors him. Other scholars think it means for a person to change what he thinks about God. John used the word “repentance” because he wanted the people to get ready for the messiah to come to them. See: Isaiah 40:3-5 + See: [Repent (Repentance)](../articles/repent.md) ### How did God forgive a Jew’s sins? @@ -64,7 +67,7 @@ See: [Baptize (Baptism)](../articles/baptize.md); [Repent (Repentance)](../arti John served God by helping the Jewish people to know that Jesus was the messiah and to believe in Jesus. Luke wrote about the way John served Jesus as if John was announcing that a king was coming (see: Luke 3:5). When a king visited, the people often repaired the road and made it easy to travel on. John explained to the people that the right way to receive Jesus was to repent and trust in God to save them. -See: [Repent (Repentance)](../articles/repent.md); Messiah (Christ) +See: [Repent (Repentance)](../articles/repent.md); [Messiah (Christ)](../articles/messiahchrist.md) ### Why did Luke write all flesh will see God’s salvation? @@ -93,6 +96,7 @@ See: [Repent (Repentance)](../articles/repent.md); [Fruit (Metaphor)](../articl John called the Jews children of poisonous snakes because they did evil things. The Jews thought they were Abraham’s children and friends with God. While Abraham was their ancestor, they did not do the things that Abraham did. Therefore, they were not friends with God. Isaiah said that God’s enemies among the Israelites were poisonous snakes (see: Isaiah 59:5). See: Luke 19:40 + See: [Wrath](../articles/wrath.md); [Fire](../articles/fire.md) **Advice to translators**: “Imply” means to want to say something without saying it clearly. @@ -102,6 +106,7 @@ See: [Wrath](../articles/wrath.md); [Fire](../articles/fire.md) John implied that God will be angry with the people who do not “repent”(μετάνοια/g3341). He also implied that he was talking about the “Day of the Lord,” when God will judge the whole world. See: Isaiah 13:9; Zephaniah 2:2 + See: [Repent (Repentance)](../articles/repent.md); [Day of the Lord](../articles/dayofthelord.md); [Day of Judgment](../articles/dayofjudgment.md) ### What did the Jews think about tax collectors? @@ -186,6 +191,7 @@ See: [Messiah (Christ)](../articles/messiahchrist.md); [Son of God](../articles/ John “baptized”(βαπτίζω/g0907) people as part of their “repenting”(μετανοέω/g3340) from their sins. He did this so that they would be able to welcome the Messiah, Jesus Christ. He also “baptized” Jesus (see: Mark 1:9), because Jesus asked him to do so, even though Jesus had never sinned. He never needed to “repent” of having sinned. Most scholars think that Jesus wanted to be “baptized” in order to prepare him to be a sacrifice to God. He would die in the same way a sacrifice was done to allow people to be at peace with God. See: 2 Corinthians 5:21 + See: [Repent (Repentance)](../articles/repent.md); [Messiah (Christ)](../articles/messiahchrist.md); [Atone (Atonement)](../articles/atone.md) ## 3:23-38