Luke 3:18

THE MESSAGE

There was a lot more of this—words that gave strength to the people, words that put heart in them. The Message! But Herod, the ruler, stung by John's rebuke in the matter of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, capped his long string of evil deeds with this outrage: He put John in jail.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then, along with many other exhortations, he proclaimed good news to the people.

King James Version (1611)
And many other things in his exhortation preached he vnto the people.

King James Version
And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.

English Standard Version
So with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people.

New American Standard Bible
So with many other exhortations he preached the gospel to the people.

New Century Version
And John continued to preach the Good News, saying many other things to encourage the people.

Amplified Bible
So with many other appeals and various admonitions John preached the good news (gospel) to the people.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So with many other exhortations he preached the gospel to the people.

Legacy Standard Bible
So with many other exhortations he proclaimed the gospel to the people.

Berean Standard Bible
With these and many other exhortations, John proclaimed the good news to the people.

Contemporary English Version
In many different ways John preached the good news to the people.

Complete Jewish Bible
And with many other warnings besides these he announced the Good News to the people.

Darby Translation
Exhorting then many other things also he announced [his] glad tidings to the people.

Easy-to-Read Version
John said many other things like this to encourage the people to change, and he told them the Good News.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus then exhorting with many other things, he preached vnto the people.

George Lamsa Translation
Many other things also, he taught and preached to the people.

Good News Translation
In many different ways John preached the Good News to the people and urged them to change their ways.

Lexham English Bible
So with many other exhortations also he proclaimed good news to the people.

Literal Translation
And then indeed exhorting many different things, he preached the gospel to the people.

American Standard Version
With many other exhortations therefore preached he good tidings unto the people;

Bible in Basic English
And so comforting them with these and other words, he gave the good news to the people;

Hebrew Names Version
Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people,

International Standard Version
With many other exhortations Johnhe">[fn] continued to proclaim the good news to the people.

Etheridge Translation
But many other things he also taught and preached to the people.

Murdock Translation
And many other things also, he taught and proclaimed to the people.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And many other thinges, in his exhortation, preached he vnto the people.

English Revised Version
With many other exhortations therefore preached he good tidings unto the people;

World English Bible
Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And many other things in his exhortation preached he to the people.

Weymouth's New Testament
With many exhortations besides these he declared the Good News to the people.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And many othere thingis also he spak, and prechide to the puple. But Eroude tetrark, whanne he was blamed of Joon for Erodias,

Update Bible Version
With many other exhortations therefore he preached good tidings to the people;

Webster's Bible Translation
And many other things in his exhortation he preached to the people.

New English Translation
And in this way, with many other exhortations, John proclaimed good news to the people.

New King James Version
And with many other exhortations he preached to the people.

New Living Translation
John used many such warnings as he announced the Good News to the people.

New Life Bible
John spoke much more as he preached the Good News to the people.

New Revised Standard
So, with many other exhortations, he proclaimed the good news to the people.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then indeed, as to many things and various, he exhorted, and continued telling his glad-message unto the people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And many other things exhorting did he preach to the people.

Revised Standard Version
So, with many other exhortations, he preached good news to the people.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And many other thinges in his exhortacion preached he vnto the people.

Young's Literal Translation
And, therefore, indeed with many other things, exhorting, he was proclaiming good news to the people,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And many other thynges more exorted he, & preached vnto the people.

Mace New Testament (1729)
many other things he delivered to the people in his exhortations.

Simplified Cowboy Version
John told a bunch of different stories in a bunch of different ways so that people could get the idea about the good news that had arrived.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ The interest of the people by now was building. They were all beginning to wonder, "Could this John be the Messiah?" ¹⁶But 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. 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." ¹⁸There was a lot more of this—words that gave strength to the people, words that put heart in them. The Message! But Herod, the ruler, stung by John's rebuke in the matter of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, capped his long string of evil deeds with this outrage: He put John in jail.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 1:15, John 1:29, John 1:34, John 3:29-36, Acts 2:40

Reciprocal: 1 Corinthians 14:3 - exhortation

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
God told the serpent: "Because you've done this, you're cursed, cursed beyond all cattle and wild animals, Cursed to slink on your belly and eat dirt all your life. I'm declaring war between you and the Woman, between your offspring and hers. He'll wound your head, you'll wound his heel."

Job 1:21
Naked I came from my mother's womb, naked I'll return to the womb of the earth. God gives, God takes. God's name be ever blessed.

Psalms 90:3
So don't return us to mud, saying, "Back to where you came from!" Patience! You've got all the time in the world—whether a thousand years or a day, it's all the same to you. Are we no more to you than a wispy dream, no more than a blade of grass That springs up gloriously with the rising sun and is cut down without a second thought? Your anger is far and away too much for us; we're at the end of our rope. You keep track of all our sins; every misdeed since we were children is entered in your books. All we can remember is that frown on your face. Is that all we're ever going to get? We live for seventy years or so (with luck we might make it to eighty), And what do we have to show for it? Trouble. Toil and trouble and a marker in the graveyard. Who can make sense of such rage, such anger against the very ones who fear you?

Proverbs 22:5
The perverse travel a dangerous road, potholed and mud-slick; if you know what's good for you, stay clear of it.

Isaiah 7:23
But that's not the end of it. This country that used to be covered with fine vineyards—thousands of them, worth millions!—will revert to a weed patch. Weeds and thornbushes everywhere! Good for nothing except, perhaps, hunting rabbits. Cattle and sheep will forage as best they can in the fields of weeds—but there won't be a trace of all those fertile and well-tended gardens and fields.

Jeremiah 4:3
Here's another Message from God to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: "Plow your unplowed fields, but then don't plant weeds in the soil! Yes, circumcise your lives for God's sake. Plow your unplowed hearts, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem. Prevent fire—the fire of my anger— for once it starts it can't be put out. Your wicked ways are fuel for the fire.

Matthew 13:7
A Harvest Story At about that same time Jesus left the house and sat on the beach. In no time at all a crowd gathered along the shoreline, forcing him to get into a boat. Using the boat as a pulpit, he addressed his congregation, telling stories. "What do you make of this? A farmer planted seed. As he scattered the seed, some of it fell on the road, and birds ate it. Some fell in the gravel; it sprouted quickly but didn't put down roots, so when the sun came up it withered just as quickly. Some fell in the weeds; as it came up, it was strangled by the weeds. Some fell on good earth, and produced a harvest beyond his wildest dreams. "Are you listening to this? Really listening?" The disciples came up and asked, "Why do you tell stories?" He replied, "You've been given insight into God's kingdom. You know how it works. Not everybody has this gift, this insight; it hasn't been given to them. Whenever someone has a ready heart for this, the insights and understandings flow freely. But if there is no readiness, any trace of receptivity soon disappears. That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it. I don't want Isaiah's forecast repeated all over again: Your ears are open but you don't hear a thing. Your eyes are awake but you don't see a thing. The people are blockheads! They stick their fingers in their ears so they won't have to listen; They screw their eyes shut so they won't have to look, so they won't have to deal with me face-to-face and let me heal them. "But you have God-blessed eyes—eyes that see! And God-blessed ears—ears that hear! A lot of people, prophets and humble believers among them, would have given anything to see what you are seeing, to hear what you are hearing, but never had the chance. "Study this story of the farmer planting seed. When anyone hears news of the kingdom and doesn't take it in, it just remains on the surface, and so the Evil One comes along and plucks it right out of that person's heart. This is the seed the farmer scatters on the road. "The seed cast in the gravel—this is the person who hears and instantly responds with enthusiasm. But there is no soil of character, and so when the emotions wear off and some difficulty arrives, there is nothing to show for it. "The seed cast in the weeds is the person who hears the kingdom news, but weeds of worry and illusions about getting more and wanting everything under the sun strangle what was heard, and nothing comes of it. "The seed cast on good earth is the person who hears and takes in the News, and then produces a harvest beyond his wildest dreams." He told another story. "God's kingdom is like a farmer who planted good seed in his field. That night, while his hired men were asleep, his enemy sowed thistles all through the wheat and slipped away before dawn. When the first green shoots appeared and the grain began to form, the thistles showed up, too. "The farmhands came to the farmer and said, ‘Master, that was clean seed you planted, wasn't it? Where did these thistles come from?' "He answered, ‘Some enemy did this.' "The farmhands asked, ‘Should we weed out the thistles?' "He said, ‘No, if you weed the thistles, you'll pull up the wheat, too. Let them grow together until harvest time. Then I'll instruct the harvesters to pull up the thistles and tie them in bundles for the fire, then gather the wheat and put it in the barn.'" Another story. "God's kingdom is like a pine nut that a farmer plants. It is quite small as seeds go, but in the course of years it grows into a huge pine tree, and eagles build nests in it." Another story. "God's kingdom is like yeast that a woman works into the dough for dozens of loaves of barley bread—and waits while the dough rises." All Jesus did that day was tell stories—a long storytelling afternoon. His storytelling fulfilled the prophecy: I will open my mouth and tell stories; I will bring out into the open things hidden since the world's first day. Jesus dismissed the congregation and went into the house. His disciples came in and said, "Explain to us that story of the thistles in the field." So he explained. "The farmer who sows the pure seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, the pure seeds are subjects of the kingdom, the thistles are subjects of the Devil, and the enemy who sows them is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age, the curtain of history. The harvest hands are angels. "The picture of thistles pulled up and burned is a scene from the final act. The Son of Man will send his angels, weed out the thistles from his kingdom, pitch them in the trash, and be done with them. They are going to complain to high heaven, but nobody is going to listen. At the same time, ripe, holy lives will mature and adorn the kingdom of their Father. "Are you listening to this? Really listening? "God's kingdom is like a treasure hidden in a field for years and then accidentally found by a trespasser. The finder is ecstatic—what a find!—and proceeds to sell everything he owns to raise money and buy that field. "Or, God's kingdom is like a jewel merchant on the hunt for excellent pearls. Finding one that is flawless, he immediately sells everything and buys it. "Or, God's kingdom is like a fishnet cast into the sea, catching all kinds of fish. When it is full, it is hauled onto the beach. The good fish are picked out and put in a tub; those unfit to eat are thrown away. That's how it will be when the curtain comes down on history. The angels will come and cull the bad fish and throw them in the garbage. There will be a lot of desperate complaining, but it won't do any good." Jesus asked, "Are you starting to get a handle on all this?" They answered, "Yes." He said, "Then you see how every student well-trained in God's kingdom is like the owner of a general store who can put his hands on anything you need, old or new, exactly when you need it." When Jesus finished telling these stories, he left there, returned to his hometown, and gave a lecture in the meetinghouse. He made a real hit, impressing everyone. "We had no idea he was this good!" they said. "How did he get so wise, get such ability?" But in the next breath they were cutting him down: "We've known him since he was a kid; he's the carpenter's son. We know his mother, Mary. We know his brothers James and Joseph, Simon and Judas. All his sisters live here. Who does he think he is?" They got their noses all out of joint. But Jesus said, "A prophet is taken for granted in his hometown and his family." He didn't do many miracles there because of their hostile indifference.

Romans 14:2
For instance, a person who has been around for a while might well be convinced that he can eat anything on the table, while another, with a different background, might assume he should only be a vegetarian and eat accordingly. But since both are guests at Christ's table, wouldn't it be terribly rude if they fell to criticizing what the other ate or didn't eat? God, after all, invited them both to the table. Do you have any business crossing people off the guest list or interfering with God's welcome? If there are corrections to be made or manners to be learned, God can handle that without your help.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 3:11-12.