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In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. The World English Bible translates the passage as: Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. The Free Bible translates the passage as: Blessed are those who grieve, for they shall be consoled.
4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. 5 Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the Earth. 6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. 7 Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. 8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
[1] Like the first two Beatitudes this one seems to be similar to one in Luke, in this case with Luke 6:21. Luke only has the blessed hunger, Gundry feels the author of Matthew added thirst to match Isaiah 49:10. [2] Schweizer feels that the addition of thirst is a minor one, but the addition of the word righteousness is a major one.
The Good News: Those who die are never truly gone, because Jesus is the resurrection, and those who believe are granted everlasting life. Woman's Day/Getty Images 2 Corinthians 4:17-18
In The Canterbury Tales "The Tale of Melibee" this verse is one of the main themes. The Beatitude is quoted three times by Shakespeare, but each time ironically. It appears a 2.1.25 of Henry VI, part 2, 2.1.50-3 of Richard III, and 5.3.138-40 of Coriolanus. The verse also plays an important role in Herman Melville's Billy Budd.
Hill speculates that the verse could actually be a mistranslation of Isaiah 61:1, and should have read "only the contrite will see God". [ 1 ] The form – "blessed" (Greek: makarios ) + subject + "that" ( hoti ) + cause – can be found in Genesis 30:13 (also in Tobit 13:16), whereas the eschatological orientation is similar to Daniel 12:12 ...
Luke 6:20 simply has "blessed are the poor"; that Matthew adds "in spirit" is seen to be of great consequence. The phrase does not appear in the Old Testament, but Psalm 34:18 comes close. [6] The phrase "poor in spirit" occurs in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and seems to have been an important notion to the Qumran community.
As with 5:3 this verse cites the Kingdom of Heaven as the reward, also like that first verse the reward is in the present tense, the other six have it in the future. Kodjak believes that this parallelism with the first verse is to emphasize that this one is the conclusion of the Beatitudes and 5:11-12 should not be considered part of the group. [1]