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LUKE 3:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 3:14Luke 3:16
“And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not;”
The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Messiah — the expectant wondering communicates heightened messianic expectation. John's ministry has created the conditions for the messianic arrival, and the crowd's private speculation about whether John himself might be the Messiah is the natural result of witnessing his extraordinary ministry.

Church Fathers on Luke 3:15

It was meet that more deference should be paid to John than to other men, for he lived such as no other man. Wherefore indeed most rightly did they regard him with affection, only they kept not within due bounds; hence it is said, But while the people were expecting whether he were the Christ.

Origen · 3rd century

Now what could be more absurd than that he who was fancied to be in another should not be believed in his own person? He whom they thought to have come by a woman, is not believed to have come by a virgin; while in fact the sign of the Divine coming was placed in tile childbearing of a virgin, not of a woman

Ambrose · 4th century

And hence, John gloried not in the estimation in which all held him, nor in any way seemed to desire the deference of others, but embraced the lowest humility. Hence it follows, John answered.

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