Matthew 5:3
What meaning of the matthew 5:3 in the Bible?
What does Matthew 5:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
What does Matthew 5:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
Verse Matthew 5:3. _BLESSED_ ARE _THE POOR IN SPIRIT_, C.] Or, _happy_, μακαριοι from μα or μη, _not_, and κηρ, _fate_, or _death_: intimating, that such persons were endued with _immortality_, and co...
BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT - The word “blessed” means “happy,” referring to that which produces felicity, from whatever quarter it may come. POOR IN SPIRIT - Luke says simply, Blessed are the poor...
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 Matthew 5:5) have analogi...
II. THE HEIRS OF THE KINGDOM. 3. BLESSED. There follow nine beatitudes, each of which pronounces. blessing upon those who have certain characteristics. The word "blessed" is first applied to God and...
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 stru...
BLESSED. Happy, representing the Hebrew _'ashrey_ (not _baruk,_ blessed). _'Ashrey_ (Figure of speech _Beatitudo,_ not _Benedictio)_ occurs in nineteen Psalms twenty-six times; elsewhere only in eight...
A. The Subjects of the Kingdom, Matthew 5:3-16. (1) Their character and privileges, Matthew 5:3-12. 3. _Blessed are the poor in spirit_ The beatitudes so called from the opening word "beati" (blessed...
The transposition of Matthew 5:4-5 to their order in the text is on the authority of the leading textual critics without however conclusive MS. support. The logical gradation of thought is in favour o...
VER 1. AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES, HE WENT UP INTO A MOUNTAIN: AND WHEN HE WAS SET, HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM. 2. AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH, AND TAUGHT THEM, SAYING, 3. "BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT:...
_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...
ΜΑΚΆΡΙΟΣ (G3107) _pl._ благословенные, счастливые, блаженные, не знающие повседневных забот и горестей. Это слово соответствует_евр._ אשרי (BAGD; DA, 431-42; TWAT, 1:481-85; THAT, 1:257-60; Walter Kas...
DISCOURSE: 1288 THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE HUMBLE 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 taugh...
BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT— _Happy,_ &c. Doddridge: and so throughout the beatitudes: I use the word _happy_ rather than _blessed,_ says he, as more exactly answering to the original word Μακαριοι...
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 the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. BLESSED ... Of the two words which our translators render "blessed," the one here used [ makarioi (G3107)] points more to what...
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 prob...
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...
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...
BLESSED. — The word differs from that used in Matthew 23:39; Matthew 25:34, as expressing a permanent state of felicity, rather than the passive reception of a blessing bestowed by another. THE POOR I...
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...
μακάριοι. This is one of the words which have been transformed and ennobled by N. T. use; by association, as in the Beatitudes, with unusual conditions, accounted by the world miserable, or with rare...
OPENING WORDS OF GRACE AND TRUTH Matthew 5:1-9 There are many doors into the life of blessedness. It does not depend on outward possessions, such as worldly goods or high birth. There is no soul of...
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...
Blessed [are] the (a) poor in (b) spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (a) Under the name of poverty are meant all the miseries, that are joined with poverty. (b) Whose minds and spirits are...
The poor in spirit; [1] which, according to the common exposition, signifies the humble of mind and heart. Yet some understand it of such as are truly in poverty and want, and who bear their indigent...
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...
_POOR IN SPIRIT_ ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit: for their’s is the kingdom of heaven.’ Matthew 5:3 It must have been an hour never to have been forgotten when Jesus, on that Mount, which was ever...
3._Happy are the poor in spirit. _Luke 6:20._Happy (are ye) poor. _Luke gives nothing more than a simple metaphor: but as the poverty of many is accursed and unhappy, Matthew expresses more clearly th...
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 THE POOR IN SPIRIT,.... Not the poor in purse, or who are so with respect to things temporal: for though God has chosen and called many, who are in such a condition of life, yet not all; t...
Blessed _are_ the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Ver. 3. _Blessed_] The word signifieth such as are set out of the reach of evil, in a most joyous condition, having just cause t...
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:...
_Blessed are the poor in spirit_ The word μακαριοι, here rendered _blessed_, properly means _happy_, and it may be better to translate it so, because our Lord seems to intimate by it, not only that th...
POOR IN SPIRIT; the humble, who feel their dependence on God in all things, temporal and spiritual, and look to him for the supply of every want; more especially those who feel their need, as sinners,...
His first words strike the key-note of the entire discourse: Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. The reference of Jesus here is not primarily to temporal poverty, to e...
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,...
Happy are they, who, though they be not rich in this world's goods, yet have a spirit suited to their state and condition, not looking for their consolation here, but, having a poor and low opinion of...
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] Clement of Alexandria Strom...
Matthew 5:3 Blessed G3107 poor G4434 spirit G4151 For G3754 theirs G846 is G2076 (G5748) kingdom G932 heaven G3772 Blessed - Matthew 5:4-11, Matthew 11:6, Matthew 13:16, Matthew 24:46;...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT PART 1 REQUIRED ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR UNDER THE KINGLY RULE OF HEAVEN (5:1-7). Having travelled widely throughout Galilee, and having proclaimed the need for repentance and...
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 5:1...
BLESSED (μακαριο). The English word "blessed" is more exactly represented by the Greek verbal ευλογητο as in Luke 1:68 of God by Zacharias, or the perfect passive participle ευλογημενος as in Luke 1...
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 5:1. _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...
HAPPY. This word is used many times. It is the happiness which God gives. [Our English language does not have a word to accurately give this the full force of the original MAKARIOS. _Extreme happiness...
_Poor in spirit._ POOR IN SPIRIT I. Examine the character here spoken of. 1. We should not confound the poor in spirit with the poor in worldly circumstances. 2. We are not to associate the mean-s...
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 5:1; Matthew 10:1;...
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: Luke 6:17 And he came down...
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...
2 Chronicles 33:12; 2 Chronicles 33:19; 2 Chronicles 33:23; 2 Chronicles 34:27; 2 Chronicles 7:14; Daniel 5:21; Daniel 5:22; Deuteronomy 8:2; Isaiah 30:18;...
Blessed [μ α κ α ρ ι ο ι]. As this word and its cognates occur at least fifty - five times in the New Testament, it is important to understand its history, which is interesting because it is one of th...
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...
Happy are the poor — In the following discourse there is, A sweet invitation to true holiness and happiness, Matthew 5:3. A persuasive to impart it to others, Matthew 5:13. A description of true Chris...
(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 “...
Observe here, 1. It is not said, blessed are the poor in estate, but BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT: it is not. poverty of purse and possession, but. poverty of spirit, that entitles us to the blessin...