Luke 3:8 (BSB)
Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
Commentary on Luke 3:8
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Luke 3:1-14: John's baptism introducing a new dispensation, it was requisite that we should have a particular account of it. Glorious things were said of John, what a distinguished favourite of Heaven he should be, and what a great blessing to this earth (Luk 1:15, Luk 1:17); but we lost him in the deserts, and there he remains until the day of his showing unto Israel, Luk 1:80.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Luke 3:8: Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance,.... Or "meet" for it, such as will show it to be true and genuine: "and begin not to say within yourselves": in one of Beza's copies, and in another of Stephens's, it was read, "think not", as in Mat 3:9. the sense is the same.
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Luke 3:8: Verse 8. No entry from BARNES for this verse. (1) "fruits worthy of repentance", or "meet for"
- John Lightfoot (Puritan), Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae on Luke 3:8: [Of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.] We do not say the Baptist played with the sound of those two words banaia and abanaia: he does certainly, with great scorn, deride the vain confidence and glorying of that nation (amongst whom nothing was more ready and usual in their mouths than to boast that they were the children of Abraham), when he tells...