Luke 3:17-19
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17 His winnowing fan[a] is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”(A) 18 Exhorting them in many other ways, he preached good news to the people. 19 [b]Now Herod the tetrarch,(B) who had been censured by him because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the evil deeds Herod had committed,
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- 3:17 Winnowing fan: see note on Mt 3:12.
- 3:19–20 Luke separates the ministry of John the Baptist from that of Jesus by reporting the imprisonment of John before the baptism of Jesus (Lk 3:21–22). Luke uses this literary device to serve his understanding of the periods of salvation history. With John the Baptist, the time of promise, the period of Israel, comes to an end; with the baptism of Jesus and the descent of the Spirit upon him, the time of fulfillment, the period of Jesus, begins. In his second volume, the Acts of the Apostles, Luke will introduce the third epoch in salvation history, the period of the church.
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