Luke 3:11
“Let anyone who has two coats,” answered John, “share with the person who has none; and anyone who has food do the same.”
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In Context
10“What are we to do then?” the people asked.
12Even tax collectors came to be baptized, and said to John, “Teacher, what are we to do?”
Cross References
Matthew 25:40And the king will reply ‘I tell you, as often as you did it to one of these my brothers or sisters, however unimportant they seemed, you did it to me.’
Luke 11:41Only give away what is in them in charity, and at once you have the whole clean.
Luke 19:8But Zacchaeus stood forward and said to the Master, “Listen, Master! I will give half my property to the poor, and, if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give him back four times as much.”
Acts 10:2A religious man and one who reverenced God, with all his household. He was liberal in his charities to the people, and prayed to God constantly.
Acts 10:31‘Cornelius,’ he said, ‘your prayer has been heard, and your charities have been accepted, by 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 →