Luke 3:19 — Community Reflections

LUKE 3:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,”

But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of his marriage to Herodias, his brother's wife, and all the other evil things he had done — the confrontation of Herod is the prophetic function John inherited from Elijah. The marriage to Herodias violated Leviticus 18:16 and 20:21. All the other evil things summarizes a pattern of moral failure beyond the marriage — John's rebuke is comprehensive.

Church Fathers on Luke 3:19

John having announced the coming of Christ, was preaching the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and the other things which the Gospel history has handed down to us. But besides these he is declared to have announced others in the following words, And many other things in his exhortation preached he to the people.
Origen · 3rd century

For his exhortation was the telling of good things, and therefore is fitly called the Gospel.
Theophylact · 11th century

He is called the tetrarch, to distinguish him from the other Herod, in whose reign Christ was born, and who was king, but this Herod was tetrarch. Now his wife was the daughter of Aretas, king of Arabia, but he had sacrilegiously married his brother Philip’s wife, though she had offspring by his brother. For those only were allowed to do this whose brothers died without issue. For this the Baptist had censured Herod. First indeed he heard him attentively, for he knew that his…
Eusebius of Caesarea · 4th century

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