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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. The Novum Testamentum Graece text is:
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.
This verse opens the first of nine statements of who is blessed. Each, except for the last, follows the same pattern of naming a group of people and the reward they will receive. Hans Dieter Betz notes that in Jesus' time blessed was a common way of describing someone who is wealthy.
Albright and Mann note that fasting was a common sign of righteousness, and one that Jesus has already endured at Matthew 4:2.The metaphor of God or the messiah as a feast ending a fast occurs several times in the scripture including Isaiah 55:1, Jeremiah 31:25, and Psalm 107:9.
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
This verse is generally believed to have been taken from Psalm 24:3–5 either by Jesus or the author of Matthew who was adding this verse that is not found in Luke. A number of scholars have been certain that there were originally seven Beatitudes, as seven was a holy number.
The verse also plays an important role in Herman Melville's Billy Budd. The verse appears on John Marston's grave in the video game Red Dead Redemption. This verse was famously misprinted in the second edition of the Geneva Bible as "blessed are the placemakers."
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