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Luke 3:8

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance,.... Or "meet" for it, such as will show it to be true and genuine: "and begin not to say within yourselves": in one of Beza's copies, and in another of Stephens's, it was read, "think not", as in Mt 3:9.

the sense is the same.

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