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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 3
John the Baptist preaches and baptizes—Jesus is baptized and God
acclaims him as his Son—His genealogy back to Adam is set forth.
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John the Baptist preaches the baptism of repentance—Jesus is
baptized by John and God proclaims his bloved son—Jesus' human
genealogy is presented all the way back to Adam showing forth that direct
relationship between Jesus the second Adam of the atonement and Adam of the
fall. (NOTE: This genealogy is of necessity that of Mary Christ's
mother as that is the only genealogy which is his earthly inherited blood
line which enabled him to suffer death.)
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1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius
Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and aHerod
being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of
the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
2 aAnnas and Caiaphas being the
bhigh priests, the word of God came unto John the son of
Zacharias in the wilderness.
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3 And he came into all the country about Jordan,
preaching the abaptism of repentance for the
bremission of sins;
4 aAs it is written in the book of
the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The bvoice of one
crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths
straight.
5 Every avalley shall be filled, and
every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made
straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
6 And all flesh shall see the
asalvation of God.
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7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be
baptized of him, O ageneration of vipers, who hath warned
you to flee from the wrath to come?
8 Bring forth therefore afruits
bworthy of crepentance, and begin not to
say within yourselves, dWe have eAbraham
to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to
raise up children unto Abraham.
9 And now also the aaxe is laid unto
the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good
bfruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
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10 And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
11 He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two
acoats, let him bimpart to him that hath
none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
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12 Then came also apublicans to be
baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?
13 And he said unto them, Exact no more than that
which is appointed ayou.
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14 And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying,
And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither
accuse any afalsely; and be
bcontent with your cwages.
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15 And as the people were in expectation, and all men
amused in their hearts of bJohn, whether
he were the Christ, or not;
16 John answered, saying unto them all, I
indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of
whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall abaptize
you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
17 Whose afan is in his
hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into
his bgarner; but the cchaff he will burn
with fire unquenchable.
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18 And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.
19 But aHerod the tetrarch, being
reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils
which Herod had done,
20 Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.
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21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to
pass, that Jesus also being abaptized, and praying, the
heaven was opened,
22 And the aHoly Ghost descended in
a bodily shape like a bdove upon him, and a voice came from
heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
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Jesus' Ancestry after the Flesh, of His Mother Mary
Many debate the genealogies of Jesus. Simply stated, the genealogy in
Matthew was presented forth as that of his 'male' royal ancestry obtained
through his legally adopting father Joseph. By that genealogy he had right to
claim to be the King of the Jews. And the genealogy in Luke is his genealogy
of the human flesh all the way back to Adam, showing forth his human ancestry
by which he inherited the ability of death. Both those genealogies deal with
that of this world, the worldly royal genealogy of this earth and the descend
of his flesh of corruption of this fallen second estate. Neither set forth
his ancestry of the things of God, being the only begotten Son of God in the
flesh, nor his heirship genealogy to the promised covenant of the priesthood
and of the right of man to administer in the things of God according to the
plan of redemption.
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23 And aJesus himself began to be
about bthirty years of age, being (as was supposed)
the son of
cJosepha, which
was the son of Helib,
Better Translated
Rearranged for clarity and without the translator's supplied words this
verse would better be read and understood as follows:
"And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of
age, (being as was supposed the son of Joseph), he [Jesus] was of
Heli,"
In terms of his bloodline linage of the flesh, Jesus was not the son of
Joseph. His linage was of Heli the father of Mary and thence back to Adam
the first man. That was his earthly linage of the flesh which enabled him
the ability and/or capacity to die being of human origin. In Jewish
genealogies it is proper to list the male line. Jesus' male line of the this
mortal flesh skips to his mother's father Heli as God the Father was his
immediate father from whom he had obtained the power over death to resurrect.
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23a being (as was suppossed) the son of
Joseph Why the translators placed parrenthesis merely about the
three words 'as was supposed' and not about the entire supposed phrase
has be cause for misinterpretation of over the ages. The entire phrase, 'being
as was supposed the son joseph' belongs in parrenthesis, thus setting it
entirely apart from the relavent genealogy presented here by Luke. Since
genealogy is not stated in terms of materal descent, and since Jesus was
truely only the son of Mary and not of Joseph, Jesus' paternal mortal
genealogy would be stated to have next in line to him Mary's father Heli.
23a which was the son of
Heli The italized words 'the son' is not a part of the
original text of Luke. It was added in by the translators. It does not
belong and makes it more difficult to read. Simple state, Jesus was of Heli,
not of Joseph.
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The Curse and Ability to Die
Death is not the natural state of eternity. The inherited traits from God is
to have the ability to live forever, to be in a continuous state of eternal
life. That is the natural state of eternity. It was by Adam that death came
into the world. For this man Jesus, the Son of God, to be able to die, to
have that capacity, he would have to obtain it from some source. The linage
of that critical capacity to die, that curse of mortal man, was obtained
from Mary and her father Heli. And it traces itself all the way back to Adam
and the fall of man. Thus Luke did set forth the entire genealogy of Jesus'
mortality, all the way back to Adam, he by whom the fall and death did come
into the world. In terms of the gospel to the gentiles, this is the great
message, that Jesus the Son of God with the power of immortallity, did come
into the world to die, that men might through him live. Only he could unlock
that door of passage, having both the capacity to die a mortal death and the
ability to resurrect. The two given genealogies of Jesus are so different
between that of Matthew and Luke, that they could not be the same Genealogy
of just the earthly adopted father of Jesus. They are two separate
genealogies. The one is that of Joseph and the royal house of David back to
Judah and the other is that of Mary or Jesus back to Adam, Adam who brought
about death which Jesus was so born to overcome.
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24 Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph,
25 Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge,
26 Which was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Juda,
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27 Which was the son of Joanna, which was the son of Rhesa, which was the son of Zorobabel, which was the son of Salathiel, which was the son of Neri,
28 Which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Addi, which was the son of Cosam, which was the son of Elmodam, which was the son of Er,
29 Which was the son of Jose, which was the son of Eliezer, which was the son of Jorim, which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi,
30 Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim,
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31 Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David,
32 Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which was the son of Naasson,
33 Which was the son of Aminadab, which was
the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the
son of aPhares, which was the son of
bJuda,
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34 Which was the son of Jacob, which was
the son of Isaac, which was the son of
aAbraham, which was the son of Thara, which was
the son of Nachor,
35 Which was the son of Saruch, which was the son of Ragau, which was the son of Phalec, which was the son of Heber, which was the son of Sala,
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36 Which was the son of Cainan, which was
the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of
aSem, which was the son of Noe, which was the
son of Lamech,
37 Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,
38 Which was the ason of
Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of
bAdam, cwhich was the
dson of God.
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