Now (νυν). Luke adds this adverb here and in the next sentence after "weep." This sharpens the contrast between present sufferings…

That hunger now. Matthew has it, "that hunger and thirst after righteousness." Matthew has expressed more fully what Luk…

Blessed are you that hunger now.—In the second beatitude, as in the first, we note the absence of the words that seem to …

St. Cyril of Alexandria: After the ordination of the Apostles, the Savior directed His disciples to the newne of the evangelica…

Luke’s version of the blessings (or “Beatitudes”) is shorter than Matthew’s and is different in some particulars; he also includes a negative form …

Blessed are you that hunger now
Not only suffer hunger and thirst in a literal sense, in this present life, but who …

Here begins a discourse of Christ, most of which is also found in Matthew chapters 5 and 7. But some think that this was preached at another time a…