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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

Exegesis Iēsous de ‘and Jesus’ refers back to 3:21f after the genealogy of 3:23–38, as is shown by what follows, see below. plērēs pneumatos hagiou ‘full of the Holy Spirit’, qualifies Iēsous. The omission of the article tou before pneumatos does not change the meaning of the phrase, cp. on 1:15. Here the Holy Spirit referred to is the Spirit who had descended upon Jesus after his baptism, cp. 3:22. plērēs (also 5:12) ‘full’ (cp. also Acts 6:3; 7:55; 11:24). As contrasted
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