Matthew 11:5

Mat. 11:5. "The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached unto them." Τυφλοι αναβλεπουσι, και ξωλοι, περιπατουσι, λεπροι καθαριζονται, και κωφοπι ακουουσι, νεκροι εγειρονται, και πτωξοι ευαγγελιζονται. By the poor seems pretty evidently to be meant "the poor in spirit." In the last effect here mentioned the poor are evangelized; the manner of speaking and connection of the words lead us to suppose there is the like relation and opposition between the benefit and character of the subject of that benefit, as in the foregoing effects mentioned, such as between receiving light and darkness, a being raised up and death. The word ευαγγελιζονται, 'evangelized,' implies not only being the subject of the preaching of the gospel, or the telling the good news, but a being encouraged, refreshed, and revived, and made joyful and happy by it; and between such a benefit and a being poor in spirit, of a broken heart, or heart mourning, humbled, being wretched, miserable, and undone in his own eyes, and despairing in the world and in himself. I say, a being evangelized in the sense mentioned has a like relation to such a qualification of the subject as sight has to blindness, light to darkness, walking to lameness, life to death. The poor's being evangelized is the last effect mentioned, it being that which crowns all, representing the main thing which Jesus comes into the world for, the blessed effect that He had respect to in all that He said and did, and the great thing of which the other things here mentioned were but types and representations. In these last words Christ has a plain reference to Isaiah 61:1. In Luke 4:18, Christ cites these words thus, "He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor."

Mat. 11:25-26