Matthew 5:6
What meaning of the matthew 5:6 in the Bible?
What does Matthew 5:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."
What does Matthew 5:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."
Verse Matthew 5:6. _THEY WHICH DO HUNGER AND THIRST_] As the body has its natural appetites of hunger and thirst for the food and drink suited to its nourishment, so has the soul. No being is _indest...
BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH DO HUNGER ... - Hunger and thirst, here, are expressive of strong desire. Nothing would better express the strong desire which we ought to feel to obtain righteousness than hung...
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...
BLESSED ARE THEY THAT HUNGER, ETC. This implies the same sense of spiritual needs as verses. and 4. Hunger is. felt want, in this case. want of righteousness before God, the righteousness that comes...
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...
HUNGER AND THIRST, &C. The idiom for. strong desire. Compare Psalms 42:1; Psalms 42:2; Psalms 119:103....
This longing for righteousness is God's gift to the meek....
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 6. "BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH DO HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS: FOR THEY SHALL BE FILLED." Ambrose: As soon as I have wept for my sins, I begin to hunger and thirst after righteousness. He w...
_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...
ΠΕΙΝΏΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΠΕΙΝΆΩ (G3983) алкать, жаждать, хотеть чего-л. _Adj. part._ в роли _subst. Praes._ указывает на постоянное качество, ΔΙΨΏΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΔΙΨΆΩ (G1372) жаж...
DISCOURSE: 1290 HUNGERING AND THIRSTING AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS Matthew 5:6. _Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled_. MEN naturally desire happiness:...
BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH DO HUNGER, &C.— Our Saviour uses the ideas of _hunger_ and _thirst_ metaphorically, to express vehement desire. By _righteousness_ seems to be meant that holiness which the Gosp...
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 do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH DO HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS, [ teen (G3588 ) dikaiosuneen (G1343 ) = t...
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...
WHICH DO HUNGER AND THIRST. — We seem in this to hear the lesson which our Lord had learnt from the recent experience of the wilderness. The craving of bodily hunger has become a parable of that highe...
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...
_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...
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...
_Hunger and thirst; i.e. spiritually, with an earnest desire of being just and holy. But others again understand such as endure with patience the hardships of hunger and thirst. (Witham) --- Rupertus...
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...
_HUNGERING AND THIRSTING_ ‘Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall he filled.’ Matthew 5:6 What does this mean for us? I. FOR OURSELVES.—Remember that the...
6._Happy are they who hunger _To _hunger and thirst _is here, I think, used as a figurative expression, (366) and means to suffer poverty, to want the necessaries of life, and even to be defrauded of...
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 DO HUNGER AND THIRST,.... Not after the riches, honours, and pleasures of this world, but AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS; by which is meant, not justice and equity, as persons oppressed a...
Blessed _are_ they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Ver. 6. _Blessed are those that hunger and thirst after righteousness_] The righteousness of Christ both i...
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 they which hunger and thirst after righteousness_ That, instead of desiring the possessions of others, and endeavouring to obtain them by violence or deceit; and instead of coveting this...
HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS; ardently desire to be and do right because it is right; trusting not in their own righteousness, but in the righteousness of Christ, which by the apostle is call...
Having named a few negative virtues, the Lord next mentions some positive qualifications which should characterize His disciples: BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH DO HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS; FOR T...
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,...
You see many men and women hungering and thirsting after sensual satisfactions, or after sensible enjoyments; these are unhappy, miserable men, they often hunger and thirst, and are not satisfied: but...
Clement of Alexandria Who is the Rich Man that Shall Be Saved? How? "In spirit." And again, "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after the righteousness of God."[20] Tertullian On Fasting How u...
Matthew 5:6 Blessed G3107 who G3588 hunger G3983 (G5723) and G2532 thirst G1372 (G5723) righteousness G1343 For G3754 they G846 filled G5526 (G5701) are - Psalms 42:1-2, Psalms 63:1-2, Psalms 84:2
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...
THEY THAT HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS (ο πεινωντες κα διψωντες την δικαιοσυνην). Here Jesus turns one of the elemental human instincts to spiritual use. There is in all men hunger for foo...
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. TO DO WHAT GOD REQUIRES. This implies a deep sense of spiritual need (_compare_ Matthew 5:3-4), a desire to stand before God cleansed of sin (_see_ Luke 15:17). GOD WILL SATISFY THEM FULLY. _Se...
THEY WHICH DO HUNGER AND THIRST. Righteousness desired I. A few features of the disposition here commended. The term righteousness is variously used. 1. Sometimes it signifies rectitude. 2. Someti...
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...
Amos 8:11; Isaiah 25:6; Isaiah 41:17; Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 49:10; Isaiah 49:9; Isaiah 55:1; Isaiah 65:13; Isaiah 66:11; John 4:14;...
Shall be filled [χ ο ρ τ α σ θ η σ ο ν τ α ι]. A very strong and graphic word, originally applied to the feeding and fattening of animals in a stall. In Revelation 19:21, it is used of the filling of...
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...
They that hunger and thirst after righteousness — After the holiness here described. They shall be satisfied with it....
Observe, 1. The character of the persons whom Christ pronounces BLESSED; such as HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS. 2. Wherein their BLESSEDNESS doth consist: THEY SHALL BE FILLED. By RIGHTEOUSN...