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Simplified Cowboy Version

Luke 3:18

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.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - John;   Thompson Chain Reference - Exhortations;   The Topic Concordance - Baptism;   Holy Spirit;   Jesus Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Genealogy;   Mary;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Prophecy, prophet;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Gospel;   John the Baptist;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Baptism ;   Exhortation;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gospels;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Luke, Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - John the Baptist;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Herod, Family of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Baptism;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Exhortation;   Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);   Luke, the Gospel of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Christianity in Its Relation to Judaism;   John the Baptist;  

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.
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.

Contextual Overview

15Everyone was jabberin' back and forth, "Is this fellow the one who will save us all?" 16John heard them and cut it off quick. "All I'm doing is dunkin' y'all in water. There's a cowboy comin' who I ain't fit to adjust his stirrups. He's gonna dunk you in fire to purify you in the Holy Spirit. 17He's got his sortin' stick out and will separate the seed stock from the sorry stock. The sorry stock will be hauled to the butcher and then burned in the fire that never goes out." 18John 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. 19And John didn't cut old Herod no slack when he said, "And it takes a sorry fella to steal his brother's wife and everything else you've done." 20Later on, Herod locked John up . . . and this was probably the worst thing he could have done.

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

Matthew 13:7
Still other seed fell among a prickly pear cactus part of the pasture. That durn cactus choked it out 'fore it ever had a chance.
Romans 14:2
Let me explain, one might think it's okay to eat anything and another is a vegan.
Hebrews 6:8
But if a herd does nothing except eat and take all the good without giving anything back, the rancher will send 'em all to the sale.

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.


 
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