Luke 3:13

But he said to them, Demand not any thing more upon what is prescribed to you to require.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.

In Context

12The publicans also came to be baptized, and they said to him, Malphona, what shall we do?

14And the military servants asked of him and said, What shall we also do? And he said to them, Molest no man, oppress no man, and let your wages satisfy you.

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Cross References

Luke 19:8But Zakai stood, and said to Jeshu, Behold, my Lord, the dividing of my wealth give I to the poor; and to every man, whatever I have wrongfully taken, fourfold I restore.

Ephesians 4:28And let him who hath stolen henceforth steal not, but labour with his hands and do good, that he may have to give to him who needeth.

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 →

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