Luke 6:20-26 WEB

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 6:20-49

The Legislator on the mount. We have seen how, after a whole night spent in prayer, our Lord proceeded to the important work of selecting his apostles. In this way he organized his kingdom. And now, having healed all who needed healing, and had been brought or had come to him, he has the ground cleared for legislative work. From this mountain-top in Galilee he publishes the laws of the kingdom, and thus gives to the world such a high-toned morality as has not been surpassed or superseded... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 6:21

Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled . A similar question probably to the one suggested above, brought out the addition reported in St. Matthew's account—" after righteousness." Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh . There is a mourning which, as Augustine says, has no blessing from heaven attached to it, at best only a sorrow of this world and for the things of this world. What Jesus speaks of is a nobler grief', a weeping for our sins and the sins of others,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 6:21

The blessedness of spiritual hunger. On the same principle of interpretation as that which applies to the preceding verse (see preceding homily), we conclude that our Master is referring to those who hunger after righteousness , who are affected by a keen spiritual appetite. These are in a state of earnest religious inquiry; they are like the young man who ran eagerly and anxiously to "know what he must do to inherit eternal life" ( Luke 18:18 ). In other words, they are earnestly... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 6:22

Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. An onlook into the yet distant future. These words would be repeated by many a brave confessor in the days when persecution, at the hands of a far stronger and more far-reaching government than that of Jerusalem, should be the general lot of his followers. We find from pagan writers of the next age that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 6:22-23

The blessedness of martyrdom. Using the word 'martyrdom' in its broader sense, we have to consider the Lord's saying respecting it. It certainly is paradoxical enough. Yet his meaning is to be found for the looking. It is, indeed, true— I. THAT THE ENMITY OF OTHERS IS A SORE TRIAL TO OUR SPIRIT . Other things bruise us beside bludgeons, and other things cut us beside whipcord. The manifest hatred of other hearts, the cruel reproaches of unsparing lips,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 6:23

Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets. Well and faithfully did his followers in after, days fulfil their Master's prophetic charge. Not only did men like Paul and his brother apostles welcome persecution "for the Name" with joy, but long after Paul and his fellows had "fallen asleep," Christians in well-nigh every populous centre of the empire followed the same glorious lead. Indeed,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 6:24

But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation. These "rich" referred to here signify men of good social position. These, as a class, opposed Jesus with a bitter and unreasoning opposition. Again the same warning cry to the so-called fortunate ones of this world is re-echoed with greater force in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. "Thou in thy lifetime," said Abraham, speaking from Paradise to the poor lost Dives, "receivedst thy good things;" and yet the very... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 6:25

Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger . This saying points to men who used their wealth for self-indulgence, for the mere gratification of the senses. "The fulness," writes Dean Plumptre, "is the satiety of over-indulgence." Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. These are they who, proudly self-satisfied, dreamed that they needed nothing, neither repentance in themselves nor forgiveness from God—a character too faithfully represented in the self-satisfied,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 6:26

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! Dean Plumptre, with great force, remarks that these words "open a wide question as to the worth of praise as a test of human conduct, and tend to a conclusion quite the reverse of that implied in the maxim, Vox populi, vox Dei. " So did their fathers to the false prophets. A good instance of this is found in 1 Kings 18:19 , where Queen Jezebel honours the false prophets. See, too, King Ahab's conduct to such men ( 1 Kings... read more

Albert Barnes

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

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 6:20-49

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 6:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 6:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 6:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 6:22-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 6:23

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 6:24

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 6:25

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 6:26

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 6:20-49

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