Luke 3:11
“If you have two coats, then share with someone who doesn't have one. If you have food, then share with those who don't,” he told them.
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10“So what should we do?” the crowds asked him.
12Some tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher, what should we do?” they also asked.
Cross References
Isaiah 58:7Share your food with the hungry, take the poor and homeless into your house. When you see people naked, give them clothes, and don't reject your own relatives.
Matthew 25:40The king will tell them, ‘I tell you the truth: whatever you did for one of these least important brothers of mine you did for me.’
Luke 11:41If, acting from within, you do acts of kindness to others, then everything will be clean to you.
Luke 19:8But Zacchaeus stood up and said before the Lord, “Look, I'm giving half of everything I own to the poor, and if I've cheated anybody, I'll pay them back four times as much!”
Acts 10:2He was a religious man who, together with everyone in his household, had great reverence for God. He gave generously to the poor, and prayed regularly to God.
Acts 10:31He told me, ‘Cornelius, your prayers have been heard, and God has recognized your generosity to the poor.
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 →