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Preparing for the King
Commentators explain that this verse uses the powerful imagery of preparing a road for a visiting king. Just as workers would literally level mountains and fill valleys for a royal procession, John the Baptist's ministry was preparing human hearts for the arrival of King Jesus. This preparation involves removing spiritual obstacles to make way for the Lord.
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AT Robertson
On Luke 3:5
Valley (φαραγξ). Here only in the N.T., though in the LXX and ancient Greek. It is a ravine or valley hedged in by precipices.
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Charles Ellicott
On Luke 3:5
19th Century
Bishop
The fact that the genealogy goes back to Adam may have been originally in the document which Saint Luke translated, without any special si…
Charles Spurgeon
On Luke 3:1–7
19th Century
Preacher
Now in the fifteenth yea of the reign of Tiberias Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Luke 3:5
Luke found a clear prophecy of the ministry of John the Baptist in Isa 40:3. He includes more of the quotation than Matthew and Mark do. First he c…
John Gill
On Luke 3:5
17th Century
Pastor
Every valley shall be filled
Luke cites more out of the same prophecy, as relating to the times of John the Baptist,…
Matthew Henry
On Luke 3:1–14
17th Century
Minister
The scope and design of John's ministry were to bring the people from their sins and to their Savior. He came preaching, not a sect or party, but a…