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Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people,
Luke 3:18 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.
  • BSB With these and many other exhortations, John proclaimed the good news to the people.
  • NKJV And with many other exhortations he preached to the people.
  • NASB So with many other exhortations he preached the gospel to the people.
  • NLT John used many such warnings as he announced the Good News to the people.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 5

  • John 3:29–36He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
  • Acts 2:40With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”
  • John 1:29The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
  • John 1:34I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.”
  • John 1:15John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’”

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Christ at the center

Luke shows Jesus the Savior for all — outsiders, the poor, the nations — the one who, on the Emmaus road, opened all the Scriptures to show they were about himself.

How Luke 3:18 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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