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Luke 6:20
And He lifted up His eyes on His disciples and said, Blessed be ye poor; for yours is the kingdom of God.
And He lifted up His eyes on His disciples and said, Blessed be ye poor; for yours is the kingdom of God.
Verse Luke 6:20. _BLESSED_ BE YE _POOR_] See the sermon on the mount paraphrased and explained, Matthew 5:11, Matthew 5:7. Matthew 5:1,ff...
See this passage fully illustrated in the sermon on the mount, in Matt. 5–7. Luke 6:21 THAT HUNGER NOW - Matthew has it, “that hunger and thirst after righteousness.” Matthew has expressed more full...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Son of Man the Lord of the Sabbath. (Luke 6:1)_ 2. The Man with the Withered Hand Healed. (Luke 6:6) 3. The Twelve Apostles Chosen. (Luke 6:12) 4. Blessing and Woe. ...
THE SERMON ON THE LEVEL PLACE. This is much briefer than Matthew 5-7. The sections in Mt. that illustrate the fulfilment of the Law are omitted; more stress is laid on love and mercy. Other parallels...
THE INCREASING OPPOSITION (Luke 6:1-5)...
Jesus lifted up his eyes upon his disciples and said, "Happy are you poor, because yours is the Kingdom of God. Happy are you who are hungry now because you will be filled. Happy are you who weep now...
AND, &c. Not "Luke's version" of "the Sermon on the Mount", but. repetition in. different form of certain parts of it on. subsequent occasion. Why create. "discrepancy "by supposing that our Lord neve...
_Blessed be ye poor_ Rather, Blessed ARE THE POOR. The _makarioi_is a Hebrew expression (_ashri_), Psalms 1:1. St Matthew adds "in spirit" (comp. Isaiah 66:2, "To this man will I look, even to him tha...
20-26. BEATITUDES AND WOES. This section of St Luke, from Luke 6:20 to Luke 9:6, resembles in style the great Journey Section, Luke 9:51....
ΜΑΚΆΡΙΟΙ ΟἹ ΠΤΩΧΟΊ. ‘Blessed are the poor.’ The μακάριοι is a Hebrew expression (_ashrê_), (Psalms 1:1). St Matthew adds “in spirit” (comp. Isaiah 66:2, “To this man will I look, even to him that is p...
BEATITUDES AND WOES This section of St Luke, from Luke 6:20 to Luke 9:6, resembles in style the great Journey Section, Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:34....
Ver 20. And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be you poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. 21. Blessed are you that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed are you that w...
ΈΠΆΡΑΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΈΠΑΊΡΩ (G1869) поднимать....
DISCOURSE: 1495 TRUE HAPPINESS STATED Luke 6:20. And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Moral (Luke 6:20-26) 20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 21 Blessed are you that hunger now, f...
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. AND HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES ON HIS DISCIPLES, AND SAID. Referring to our ample comments on t...
6 Jewish tradition carried sabbath observance to ridiculous lengths. They gravely discussed whether it is lawful to put out one's hand to give to a beggar, and how far! They disagreed as to whether it...
GREAT SERMON TO THE DISCIPLES AND IN PART TO THE MULTITUDES. It forms here the ordination address of the Twelve. In what sense it is identical with the Sermon on the Mount is explained on Matthew 5:1....
FOUR BEATITUDES. See on Matthew 5:3....
CHOICE OF THE TWELVE. SERMON IN THE PLAIN 1-5. Plucking the ears of corn (Matthew 12:1; Mark 2:23). See on Mt and Mk....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 6 HOW TO USE THE *SABBATH 6:1-11 1. THE *DISCIPLES IN THE FIELDS OF CORN 6:1-5 V1 Jesus was walking through some fields of wheat on a *Sabbath. His...
BLESSED BE YE POOR... — See Notes on Matthew 5:1. The conclusion there arrived at — that the two discourses differ so widely, both in their substance and in their position in the Gospel narrative, tha...
CHAPTER 15 THE KINGDOM OF GOD. IN considering the words of Jesus, if we may not be able to measure their depth or to scale their height, we can with absolute certainty discover their drift, and see i...
_The Sermon_ (Matthew 5-7). That it is the same sermon as Mt. reports in Chapter s 5 7 may be regarded as beyond discussion. How, while the same, they came to be so different, is a question not quite...
_First part of the discourse: Beatitudes and Woes_ (Matthew 5:1-12)....
ἐπάρας τ. ὀφ.: in Lk. the Preacher lifts up His eyes upon His audience (τ. μαθητὰς, who are themselves a crowd), in Mt. He opens His mouth; both expressions introducing a solemn set discourse. Lk.'s p...
NEW LEADERS AND NEW PRINCIPLES Luke 6:12-26 There are three circles here: _First,_ Christ and His Apostles-the men who were to be sent into all the world to preach the gospel and to lay the foundati...
In a synagogue our Lord healed the man with a withered hand, and the religious watchers were filled with anger because, according to their view, our Lord had desecrated the Sabbath. Surely, there is n...
(4) And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed [be ye] poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. (4) Christ teaches against all philosophers, and especially the Epicureans, that the g...
St. Matthew (v. 3. 10.) mentions eight beatitudes, St. Luke only four; but St. Luke only gives an abridgment in this place of the discourse, which St. Matthew gives more at length. We are also to rema...
CHAPTER 16 SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over it, and visiting the places of...
2 _d. Luke 6:20-49_. _The Sermon._ The aim, prevailing thought, and plan of this discourse have been understood in many different ways. The solution of these questions is rendered more difficult by th...
THIRD CYCLE: FROM THE ELECTION OF THE TWELVE TO THEIR FIRST MISSION, LUKE 6:12 TO LUKE 8:56. In the following section we shall see the Galilean ministry reach its zenith; it begins with the institutio...
VERS. 20 AND 21. “ _And He lifted up His eyes on His disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God._ 21. _Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are...
First part: Luke 6:20-26. _The Call._ This solemn invitation describes: (1 _st._) Those who are qualified to become members of the order of things inaugurated by Jesus (Luke 6:20-23); (2 _d._) Their a...
(20) And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor; for your's is the kingdom of God. (21) Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep n...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
The circumstances related in Luke 6:1-10 have reference to the same truth, and in an important aspect. The sabbath was the sign of the covenant between Israel and God rest after finished works. The Ph...
AND HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES ON HIS DISCIPLES,.... Either the whole company of them, or rather the twelve apostles, whom he saw coming to him, and fixing his eyes on them, he sat, AND SAID; what follows...
And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed _them_ all. 20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed _be ye_ poor: for yours is the k...
_And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples_ The multitude that pressed to touch Jesus, in order to be healed, being at length rendered still and quiet, he turned to his disciples, and in their audien...
BLESSED BE YE POOR; for the meaning of these beatitudes and their opposite woes, ver Luke 6:20-26, see notes on the beatitudes in Matthew 5:3-12. See sermon on mount. Matthew 5:39-48;...
LORD OF THE SABBATH (vs.1-11) "The second Sabbath after the first" is literally translated the "second-first Sabbath" (JND trans.), an unusual expression. The first Sabbath was that following the Pas...
20-26 Here begins a discourse of Christ, most of which is also found in Luke 6:5; Luke 6:7. But some think that this was preached at another time and place. All believers that take the precepts of th...
Ver. 20-23. There are many that think that what Luke hath in these verses, and so to the end of this chapter, is but a shorter epitome of what Matthew hath in his 5th, 6th, and 7th Chapter s, and that...
Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians and once more, "Blessed are the poor, and those that are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of God."[20] Tertullian On Idolatry But...
Luke 6:20 Then G2532 He G846 up G1869 (G5660) His G846 eyes G3788 toward G1519 His G846 disciples...
JESUS PROCLAIMS THE NEW LAW OF THE KINGLY RULE OF GOD (6:20-49). Like Matthew 5-7 this ‘sermon' or ‘address' is carefully put together and patterned, but, in spite of similarities, we would be mistake...
BLESSINGS AND WOES ON ISRAEL (6:20-26). ‘And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, a Blessed are you poor, for yours is the Kingly Rule of God (Luke 6:20). b Blessed are you who hunger...
‘And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you poor, for yours is the Kingly Rule of God. Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep...
ON THE PLAN of the Sermon on the Mount, see the Chapter comments on Matthew 5. The subject both here and in Matthew is the state and duties of a citizen of the kingdom of heaven. Van Oosterzee gives t...
Luke 6:20. AND HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES _._ This look indicates the solemn opening of His discourse; comp. Matthew 5:2: ‘opened His mouth.' HIS DISCIPLES, in the wider sense, though the Twelve were near...
AND HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES (κα αυτος επαρας τους οπθαλμους αυτου). First aorist active participle from επαιρω. Note also Luke's favourite use of κα αυτος in beginning a paragraph. Vivid detail alone...
CONTENTS: Jesus and the Sabbath. Healing of a withered hand. Choosing of the twelve. Sermon on the Mount. Parable of the house built on a rock. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples, Pharisees, David, ma...
Luke 6:1. _On the second sabbath after the first._ The Hebrew law is, Leviticus 23:11, on the morrow after the sabbath, the priest shall wave the sheaf east and west, north and south, to denote the un...
HAPPY. These beatitudes are given more fully by Matthew. See notes on Matthew 5:1-12. KINGDOM OF GOD. Luke uses this phrase, while Matthew uses _Kingdom of heaven._ This shows the two phrases are inte...
_Blessed be ye poor: for yours Is the kingdom of God_ BLESSEDNESS, RATHER THAN HAPPINESS, THE WANT OF MAN It is not merely happiness, whatever our shallow moralists may say, that is “the aim and end...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 6:12 Jesus appoints 12 apostles, then gives extended teaching to a large group of disciples, including what is often called the “Sermon on the Plain” (vv. Luke 6:20; compare the “Ser...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 6:20 See note on Matt. 5:3–12. The Beatitudes mentioned here are not conditions for entering the kingdom of God but blessings pronounced on those who have already entered. The main t...
JESUS GIVES THE BEATITUDES MATTHEW 5:1-12; LUKE 6:17-26; MATTHEW 5:1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:...
_Blessed are ye poor_... in spirit (See S. Mat 5:3), for poorness of spirit is a rich and precious virtue. Therefore S. Ambrose rightly concludes that poverty, privations, and sorrow, which the world...
CHAPTER 6 VER. 1. _And it came to pass on the second Sabbath after the first._ On the second Sabbath. The Arabic version. What was this Sabbath? 1. The eighth day of unleavened bread or the last day...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 6:20.—Though various opinions have been held on the subject, the balance of probabilities seems in favour of the supposition that the discourse commonly known as the Sermon on th...
EXPOSITION LUKE 6:1 _The Lord_'_s teaching on the question of the observance of the sabbath._ LUKE 6:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE SECOND SABBATH AFTER THE FIRST. The expression accompanying this n...
Now it came to pass on the second Sabbath (Luke 6:1) Now He is going to deal with a couple of instances on the Sabbath day. We've been introduced now to the Pharisees; they're beginning to really get...
1 Corinthians 1:26; 1 Corinthians 3:21; 1 Samuel 2:8; 1 Thessalonians 1:6;...
Lifted up his eyes. Peculiar to Luke. Compare he opened his mouth (Matthew 5:1). Both indicate a solemn and impressive opening of a discourse. Blessed. See on Matthew 5:3. Ye poor. See on Matthew 5:3...
In the following verses our Lord, in the audience of his newly — chosen disciples, and of the multitude, repeats, standing on the plain, many remarkable passages of the sermon he had before delivered,...
(CF. MATTHEW 5:3)— Why does Luke’s version of the Beatitudes differ from those in Matthew? PROBLEM: Luke’s version of the first beatitude states “Blessed are you poor.” While Matthew’s account says “...
As our Saviour's condition in this world was very poor, so was his disciples' condition also; therefore to relieve them against their poverty and low estate in the world, he thus bespeaks them, BLESSE...