Luke 3:17

Luke 3:17 Meaning and Explanation

Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.

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The Coming One holds his winnowing fan: he will thoroughly purge his floor, gather the wheat into his garner, and burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.

What Does Luke 3:17 Mean?

John reaches for the harvest floor. After threshing, a farmer tossed the grain into the evening breeze with a wooden fork: the full kernels fell back to the floor, and the husks blew aside to be swept up and burned.

The Messiah comes to such a floor. His arrival divides what threshing has loosened, and the dividing line runs by weight, the substance of a life rather than its show. Yet notice where the labor aims: the garner. Gathering wheat is the goal of the whole harvest; the fire only clears away what never was grain. To belong to him is to be gathered, kept, and stored safe in the owner's barn.

Luke 3:17 in the Original Language

ptyon (πτύον), 'fan' -- the winnowing fork used to toss threshed grain into the wind.

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The Coming One holds his winnowing fan: he will thoroughly purge his floor, gather the wheat into his garner, and burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.

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