Leap for joy (σκιρτησατε). Old verb and in LXX, but only in Luke in the N.T. (here and 1:41,44). It answers to Matthew's ([Referen…

Leap for joy.—The word is peculiar to Saint Luke in the New Testament, and occurs elsewhere only in Luke 1:41;[Reference Luke 1:4…

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 …

Rejoice you in that day
When they should be hated, discarded, reproached, and anathematized: and leap for joy; as if…

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…