Happy are those who are persecuted. Because they do what God requires. The Jews expected to rule the world. (see Acts 1:6).Christ blesses those who suffer [for him], and promises them the Kingdom. These words have cheered martyrs.
Verse Matthew 5:10. _THEY WHICH ARE PERSECUTED_] δεδιωγμενοι, they who are hard pressed upon and pursued with repeated acts of enmity. _Parkhurst_. _They are happy who suffer_, seems a strange saying...
BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH ARE PERSECUTED - To persecute means literally to pursue; follow after, as one does a flying enemy. Here it means to vex, or oppress one, on account of his religion. They persecu...
5. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE KING CONCERNING HIS KINGDOM. CHAPTER S 5-7 _ 1. The Characteristics of the heirs of the Kingdom.(Matthew 5:1 .) 2. The Confirmation of the Law and its Expansion.(Matthew 5:...
THE BEATITUDES (_cf._ Luke 6:20). These nine sayings (eight if we reckon Matthew 5:10 as one, or regard Matthew 5:11 f. as having originally stood elsewhere; seven if we omit...
III. THE JOY OF PERSECUTION. 10. BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH ARE PERSECUTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE. The Jews expected the Messiah to be. great conqueror, his kingdom to be. conquering kingdom, and its ci...
"Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. "Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you false...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (Matthew 5:1-48) As we have already seen, Matthew has a careful pattern in his gospel. In his story of the baptism of Jesus he shows us Jesus realizing that the hour has struc...
A RE PERSECUTED. have been persecuted. Compare Psalms 37:39; Psalms 37:40. FOR. on account of. FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS'SAKE. Not otherwise....
_for righteousness" sake.… for my sake_ Observe these limitations. The _cause_in which a man suffers is everything. Many Galilæan zealots who had been persecuted, reviled, traduced, when they rose aga...
ΟἹ ΔΕΔΙΩΓΜΈΝΟΙ. ‘Those who have been persecuted,’ not as in A.V. ‘they which are persecuted’. The tense brings the past action into close relation with the present, and implies either (1) generally Bl...
VER 10. "BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH ARE PERSECUTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE: FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." Chrys.: "Blessed are they who suffer persecution for righteousness' sake," that is for vi...
_JESUS' TEACHINGS ABOUT BLESSEDNESS MATTHEW 5:1-12:_ "And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him. Then He opened His mouth and taught them, s...
ΔΕΔΙΩΓΜΈΝΟΙ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΔΙΏΚΩ (G1377) стремиться, преследовать, ΈΝΕΚΕΝ (G1752) с _gen._ из-за, по причине. Правда, которая выступает здесь причиной гонений, — это "праведное поведение" (RM...
DISCOURSE: 1294 PERSECUTION FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS’ SAKE Matthew 5:10. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall rev...
BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH ARE PERSECUTED, &C.— One might imagine that a person of the amiable temper and behaviour described in the last-mentioned beatitude would be the darling of mankind; but our Lord...
A. THE CHARACTER AND BLESSINGS OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN (Parallel: Luke 6:20-26) TEXT: 5:3-12 3. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4. Blessed are they that mo...
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH ARE PERSECUTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE ... How entirely this final beatitu...
18-19 Compare Mar_1:16-18; Luk_5:1-11; Joh_1:40-42. 21-22 Compare Mar_1:19-20; Luk_5:10-11. 23 See Mar_1:21-39. 25 Compare Mar_3:7-8. 1-2 Compare Luk_6:20:23. 1 The “Sermon on the Mount” was proba...
THE BEATITUDES. Properly speaking, the beatitudes are seven in number, Matthew 5:10; Matthew 5:12, forming an appendix. These three vv. being counted in, the number of beatitudes is raised, according...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT John 5:1 to John 7:29. The Sermon on the Mount: see Luke 6:20. This sermon is so similar to the sermon reported by St. Luke (Luke 6:20), that it is
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 5 JESUS TEACHES 5:1–7:29 INTRODUCTION This is the first of the five main sections that report what Jesus taught in Matthew’s *gospe...
PERSECUTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE. — Here again there is a profound significance in the order. The work of the peacemakers is not a light and easy work. Often, as of old, when we “labour for peace,” m...
CHAPTER 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
Matthew 5:10-12 being regarded as a transition to a new topic. his seems arbitrary. Delitsch, anxious to establish an analogy with the Decalogue, makes out ten seven from Matthew 5:3 to Matthew 5:9;...
_The Beatitudes_. Some general observations may helpfully introduce the detailed exegesis of these golden words. 1. They breathe the spirit of the scene. On the mountain tops away from the bustle and...
THE NEW SALT AND LIGHT OF HUMAN SOCIETY Matthew 5:10-16 We must expect to be persecuted, if we hold up the pure light of a consistent life amid the evils of the world. Men hate the light which expose...
In the three Chapter s beginning here we have the Magna Charta of the Kingdom. This chapter opens with a great revelation of its supreme condition. Character is everything. The first word is suggestiv...
Heretics and malefactors suffer occasionally, but they are not on this account blessed, because they suffer not for justice. For, says St. Augustine they cannot suffer for justice, who have divided th...
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...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
_THE PERSECUTED_ ‘Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for their’s is the kingdom of heaven.’ Matthew 5:10 I. The saints have always been persecuted. II. The world hates...
10._Happy are they who suffer persecution _The disciples of Christ have very great need of this instruction; and the more hard and disagreeable it is for the flesh to admit it, the more earnestly ough...
He then gathers around Him those who were definitively to follow Him in His ministry and His temptations; and, at His call, to link their portion and their lot with His, forsaking all beside. The str...
BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH ARE PERSECUTED,.... Not for any crimes they have done, for unrighteousness and iniquity, as murderers, thieves, and evildoers, but FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE: on account of their r...
Blessed _are_ they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Ver. 10. _Blessed are they that are persecuted_] To be persecuted (as simply considered) is no bl...
Mat. 5:1-11. "And seeing the multitudes, He went up into a mountain; and when He was set, His disciples came unto Him: and He opened His mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit:...
_For righteousness' sake_ Or for the sake of Christ and a good conscience; that Isaiah, 1 st, for their steady belief and profession of, and adherence to any article of Christian faith; 2d, for their...
RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE; on account of their being and doing right. Great opposition to men is no certain evidence that they are wrong....
It is inevitable that the reproach of Christ will strike the disciples in their endeavor to follow these rules, and so Jesus adds: BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH ARE PERSECUTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE; FOR TH...
From every direction He attracted followers, Galilee mentioned first, but also Decapolis beyond the sea of Galilee, Jerusalem and Judea, and east of Jordan. No doubt their motives for following Him we...
3-12 Our Saviour here gives eight characters of blessed people, which represent to us the principal graces of a Christian. 1. The poor in spirit are happy. These bring their minds to their condition,...
The men of the world judge those men very unhappy and miserable whom their rulers make the objects of their wrath and malice, and pursue violently to the loss of their estates, liberties, or lives, ne...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV Our holy Saviour applied poverty and riches, and the like, both to spiritual things and objects of sense. For when He said, "Blessed are they that are persecute...
Matthew 5:10 Blessed G3107 persecuted G1377 (G5772) for G1752 sake G1343 For G3754 theirs G846 is G2076 ...
“Blessed ones, those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, For theirs is the Kingly Rule of Heaven.” Here those who are blessed by God ‘have been persecuted for righteousness' sake'. This...
THE PERSECUTION OF THE GODLY, AND THE BLESSEDNESS THAT IS SEEN TO BE THEIRS AS A RESULT. THEY WILL THEREFORE BE LIKE THE PROPHETS OF OLD WHO WERE ALSO PERSECUTED (5:10-12). Analysis of Matthew 5:10....
THE PERSECUTION OF THE GODLY, AND THE BLESSEDNESS THAT IS SEEN TO BE THEIRS AS A RESULT. THEY WILL THEREFORE BE LIKE THE PROPHETS OF OLD WHO WERE ALSO PERSECUTED, AND WILL BE THE SALT OF THE EARTH AND...
Matthew 5:10. FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE. ‘ Righteousness ' includes all the preceding graces; but the peacemakers are especially persecuted; the effort to spread the gospel of peace provokes the hostili...
The scene (Matthew 5:1), the formal preface of the Evangelist (Matthew 5:2); the opening description of the citizens of the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:3-10); their relation to the world ...
Matthew 5:3-11. The beatitudes constitute an ascending series. The same thoughts are found in the Old Testament, but only since Christ has been found there. BLESSED. The word, first applied to God,...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
THAT HAVE BEEN PERSECUTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE (ο δεδιωγμενο ενεκεν δικαιοσυνης). Posing as persecuted is a favourite stunt. The kingdom of heaven belongs only to those who suffer for the sake o...
KINGDOM (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 3:2). _...
Matthew 5:1 I. The Beatitudes open that discourse which, whatever may be the difficulties of particular parts of it, has always been recognized as the most important part of the New Testament. It is,...
Matthew 5:3 Introductory Beatitudes. I. The first Beatitude pronounces a blessing on those who are Poor in Spirit. Let the limitation, the "in spirit," be carefully borne in mind. Poverty itself is...
Matthew 5:1. _And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,-_ Our Saviour soon gathered a...
Matthew 5:1. _And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:_ You notice that the Preacher sat down, and that his disciples stood around him....
Matthew 5:1. _And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain:_ For convenience, and quietude, and to be out of the way of traffic, he went up into a mountain. Elevated doctrines would seem mos...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the mount. Beatitudes. Believer as salt and light. Christ's relation to the law. Divorce. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONCLUSION: The relationship of a child of God will be manifeste...
Matthew 5:1. _Seeing the multitudes,_ assembled from six provinces to see and to hear the great, the promised prophet, who had opened his ministry with glorious miracles. But our Saviour looked upon t...
_Persecuted for righteousness._ PERSECUTION I. In what religious persecution consists. 1. Negative persecution which falls short of violence. 2. Domestic persecution. 3. Private persecution. 4....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:1 The Authoritative Message of the Messiah: Kingdom Life for His Disciples. This is the first of five major teaching sections in Matthew 1:1 (chs....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:3 The Beatitudes (from Latin for “blessed, happy”) all begin with “Blessed are...” These short statements summarize the Sermon on the Mount. ⇐...
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:...
CHAPTER 5 _Went up into a mountain._ Let us inquire what mountain this was? "Some simple brethren," says S. Jerome, "think that Christ taught the Beatitudes, and the things which follow, on the mount...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT _The aim and contents of the_ “_Sermon_.”—No mere sermon is this, only distinguished from others of its class by its reach and sweep and po...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 5:1 AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES; _i.e. _those spoken of in Matthew 4:25—the multitudes who were at that point of time following him. HE WENT UP. From the lower ground by the lake. I...
Tonight we have the Sermon on the Mount, what a fantastic portion of scripture. Matthew five, And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he has sat down, his disciples came unto...
1 Corinthians 4:9; 1 John 3:12; 1 Peter 3:13; 1 Peter 3:14; 1 P
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The key to the Sermon on the Mount is found in Matthew 4:23 : "preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom." Before the Lord sat a great crowd of p...
For righteousness' sake — That is, because they have, or follow after, the righteousness here described. He that is truly a righteous man, he that mourns, and he that is pure in heart, yea, all that w...
Note here, 1. That all the disciples and followers of Christ, live they ever so holily and inoffensively in the world, yet must they expect suffering and persecution. 2. That the keenest and sharpest...