Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Luke 6:32-36
Luke 6:32-36. If ye love them which love you, what thank have ye What great thanks are due to you on that account? For there are some sentiments of gratitude common even to the worst of men, which incline the most scandalous sinners to love those that love them, and to profess an affectionate regard for those by whom they have been treated with respect and kindness. Here, says Theophylact, “If you only love them that love you, you are only like the sinners and heathen; but if you love... read more
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 6:20-49
See this passage fully illustrated in the sermon on the mount, in Matt. 5–7.Luke 6:21That hunger now - Matthew has it, “that hunger and thirst after righteousness.” Matthew has expressed more fully what Luke has briefly, but there is no contradiction.Luke 6:24-26These verses have been omitted by Matthew. They seem to have been spoken to the Pharisees.Who are rich - In this world’s goods. They loved them; they had sought for them; they found their consolation in them. It implies, farther, that... read more