In Luke 6:20-26 Jesus pronounced blessings and woes in a teaching that many of us will find to be baffling. · And turning His gaze toward His disciples, He began ...

Luke's account suggests that the poverty and hunger are caused by the persecution suffered by those who follow Jesus.

Jesus' words of blessing are picking up body and character. The people who are blessed are not simply an economic class characterized by their net worth, they ...

11 сент. 2019 г. · The holy gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke (6:20-26) shows how Jesus Christ emphasizes the view of many regarding the state of living of everyone ...

11 сент. 2024 г. · Luke 6:20–26 offers a profound reflection on the reversal of worldly values in the Kingdom of God. Jesus' blessings upon the poor, the hungry, ...

7 июн. 2013 г. · To have woe is to have sorrow and pain because God is against you. Thus Jesus is showing us how to be supremely happy or supremely miserable.

God's mercy means doing justice for the poorest and the most humiliated. Jesus meets families on his travels who are barely surviving and are defenceless.

"Blessed are you poor," he begins, "for yours is the kingdom of God." He addresses them as "the poor," and begins to explain how the kingdom of God turns the ...

The conditions of life which the world reckons desirable, are the very conditions upon which the Lord pronounces "woes." Poverty, and hunger, and sorrow, and ...

Luke draws Jesus as hospitable and caring for the poor and the marginalised. Mary and a number of women disciples play an important part in the gospel. For ...