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Luke 3:10 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The multitudes asked him, “What then must we do?” "
Luke 3:10
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8 Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!
9 Even now the ax also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”
10 The multitudes asked him, “What then must we do?”
11 He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”
12 Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”
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Luke 3:1
"Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,"
Luke 3:2
"during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness."
Luke 3:3
"He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins."
Luke 3:4
"As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight."
Luke 3:5
"Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth."
Luke 3:6
"All flesh will see God’s salvation.’”"
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