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Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance!
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Repentance in Action
Commentators unanimously explain that John the Baptist demanded more than a verbal confession. True repentance is an internal change of heart that must be proven by external actions. As John Calvin noted, repentance is an "inward matter" that "yields its fruits in a change of life." Your actions are the evidence of your heart's transformation.
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Matthew
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Bring forth therefore fruits, etc. That is, the proper fruits of reformation, the proper evidence that you are sincere. Do not bring your …
Fruit worthy of repentance (Καρπον αξιον της μετανοιας). John demands proof from these men of the new life before he administers b…
19th Century
Anglican
Fruits (or better, fruit) meet for repentance — This phrasing in the English version is ambiguous and not ideal, because …
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Baptist
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee…
The coming of God’s reign either demands repentance (v.2) or brings judgment. Repentance must be genuine: if we wish to escape the coming wrath (v.…
16th Century
Protestant
Matthew 3:8; Luke 3:8. Yield therefore fruits worthy of repentance. He confirms what I have already said: th…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Bring forth therefore fruits That is, if you are truly penitent, if you have a proper sense of sin, and true repenta…
Applying the message to the souls of the hearers is the life of preaching; and so it was with John's preaching. The Pharisees placed their main emp…
13th Century
Catholic
The Evangelist wrote about Christ’s entrance into the world; now, however, he writes about the course of His life, which is, in fact, considered ac…
