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A Promise for "Now"
Scholars emphasize Luke's repeated use of the word "now" to create a sharp contrast. Your present hunger and weeping are not the end of the story. Jesus gives a firm promise that this current state of suffering will be completely reversed in the future with a state of being "filled" and full of laughter. This is a message of guaranteed future vindication and joy.
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Albert Barnes
On Luke 6:21
18th Century
Theologian
That hunger now. Matthew has it, "that hunger and thirst after righteousness." Matthew has expressed more fully what Luk…
AT Robertson
On Luke 6:21
Now (νυν). Luke adds this adverb here and in the next sentence after "weep." This sharpens the contrast between present sufferings…
Charles Ellicott
On Luke 6:21
19th Century
Bishop
Blessed are you that hunger now.—In the second beatitude, as in the first, we note the absence of the words that seem to …
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Luke 6:21
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 …
John Gill
On Luke 6:21
17th Century
Pastor
Blessed are you that hunger now
Not only suffer hunger and thirst in a literal sense, in this present life, but who …
Matthew Henry
On Luke 6:20–26
17th Century
Minister
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…