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He said it to the Pharisees and Sadducees.No, John “probably” did not.
THE BIBLE says people came out to John.
Luke 3:1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar—when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene—
7 John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Did you read that?
JOHN SAID to the PEOPLE COMING OUT to be baptized…
Matthew 3:7 7 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 from the wrath to come? |
You really are blind.
Luke 3:19 But when Herod the tetrarch was reprimanded by him because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the wicked things which Herod had done, 20 Herod also added this to them all: he locked John up in prison.
Did you read that? Did you see it? When John REPRIMANDED Herod about his wife, and ALL THE OTHER WICKED THINGS which HEROD had done, Herod merely responded by locking John up in prison for the reprimand.
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Matthew Poole's Commentary
Luke 3 Ver. 19,20. These two verses sufficiently confirm to us, that we are not to expect to find the several passages in the Gospel concerning John the Baptist set down according to the order of time in which they happened, for the evangelist sets down the imprisonment of John before the baptism of Christ, mentioned in the two next verses, which we know could not be as to the order of time, our Saviour being baptized by John. John was in so great repute, that Herod himself heard him, did many things, and heard him gladly, Mark 6:20.
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Matthew Poole's Commentary
Luke 3 Ver. 19,20. These two verses sufficiently confirm to us, that we are not to expect to find the several passages in the Gospel concerning John the Baptist set down according to the order of time in which they happened, for the evangelist sets down the imprisonment of John before the baptism of Christ, mentioned in the two next verses, which we know could not be as to the order of time, our Saviour being baptized by John. John was in so great repute, that Herod himself heard him, did many things, and heard him gladly, Mark 6:20.
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Luke engaged in something called a "Narrative Aside", which is a short comment added to a narrative to provide additional information.
In giving the account of John the Baptist, Luke chose to mention the imprisonment of John in Luke 3 during the narrative about the baptisms, but gives a more detailed account of it in Luke 9 when the beheading happened like the other gospels.