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Scott's Reference Library
Luke 6:17 through Luke 6:26 (NIV)
17He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his
disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from
Jerusalem, and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon, 18who had come to hear him and
to be healed of their diseases. Those troubled by evil spirits were cured,
19and the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and
healing them all.
20Looking at his disciples, he said:
“Blessed are you who are poor,
for yours is the kingdom of God.
21 Blessed are you who hunger now,
for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.
22 Blessed are you when men hate you,
when they exclude you and insult you
and reject your name as evil,
because of the Son of Man.
23“Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven.
For that is how their fathers treated the prophets.
24 “But woe to you who are rich,
for you have already received your comfort.
25 Woe to you who are well fed now,
for you will go hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
for you will mourn and weep.
26 Woe to you when all men speak well of you,
for that is how their fathers treated the false prophets.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 12-19
We often think one half hour a great deal to spend in meditation and secret
prayer, but Christ was whole nights engaged in these duties. In serving God, our
great care should be not to lose time, but to make the end of one good duty the
beginning of another. The twelve apostles are here named; never were men so
privileged, yet one of them had a devil, and proved a traitor. Those who have
not faithful preaching near them, had better travel far than be without it. It
is indeed worth while to go a great way to hear the word of Christ, and to go
out of the way of other business for it. They came to be cured by him, and he
healed them. There is a fulness of grace in Christ, and healing virtue in him,
ready to go out from him, that is enough for all, enough for each. Men regard
the diseases of the body as greater evils than those of their souls; but the
Scripture teaches us differently.
VERSES 20-26
Here begins a discourse of Christ, most of which is also found in Matthew 5 and
7. But some think that this was preached at another time and place. All
believers that take the precepts of the gospel to themselves, and live by them,
may take the promises of the gospel to themselves, and live upon them. Woes are
denounced against prosperous sinners as miserable people, though the world
envies them. Those are blessed indeed whom Christ blesses, but those must be
dreadfully miserable who fall under his woe and curse! What a vast advantage
will the saint have over the sinner in the other world! and what a wide
difference will there be in their rewards, how much soever the sinner may
prosper, and the saint be afflicted here!