Luke 3:11
He answered and said to them, “He who has two shirts, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.”
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
10So the people were asking him, saying, “What shall we do then?”
12Then tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?”
Cross References
Matthew 25:40And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers, you did it to Me.’
Luke 11:41Nevertheless give what is inside as alms; and see, all things are clean to you.
Luke 19:8Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my possessions to the poor; and if I have extorted anything from anyone, I restore fourfold.”
Acts 10:2a devout man, and one that feared God, together with all his household, who often gave alms to the people, and making petition to God always.
Acts 10:31and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your alms are remembered before God.
Matthew Henry on Luke 3:2-15
Ministry of John the Baptist. 1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituræa and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, 2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. 3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; 4 As it is… Read the whole commentary →