Jesus Himself (αυτος Ιησους). Emphatic intensive pronoun calling attention to the personality of Jesus at this juncture. When he e…

Jesus began to be, and so on. This was the age at which the priests entered on their office, Numbers 4:3, 47; but it is not evi…

Began to be about thirty years of age.—At this age the Levites began their full work (Numbers 4:23; [Reference Numbers…

Origen of Alexandria: After relating our Lord’s baptism, Luke next discusses the Lord’s lineage. He does not trace it down fr…

The age of Jesus is given in approximate terms. He might have been in his mid-thirties. “Thirty” might also indicate that, like the priests who beg…

This was also the reason why he delayed his baptism until the thirtieth year of his age, (Luke 3:23). Baptism was an appendage…

And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age ,
&c.] Or Jesus, when he was baptized and began his public m…

Matthew's list of the forefathers of Jesus showed that Christ was the son of Abraham, in whom all the families of the earth are blessed, and heir t…