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15 Matthew and Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called the Zealot;
16 Judas athe son of James, and bJudas Iscariot who also became a traitor.  

Jesus Heals a Great Multitude

17 And He came down with them and stood on a level place with a crowd of His disciples aand a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases,  
18 as well as those who were tormented with unclean spirits. And they were healed.
19 And the whole multitude asought to btouch Him, for cpower went out from Him and healed them all.  

The Beatitudes

20 Then He lifted up His eyes toward His disciples, and said:
a“Blessed are you poor,
For yours is the kingdom of God. 
21 aBlessed are you who hunger now,
For you shall be bfilled.
cBlessed are you who weep now,
For you shall dlaugh. 
22 aBlessed are you when men hate you,
And when they bexclude you,
And revile you, and cast out your name as evil,
For the Son of Man’s sake. 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Luke 6:17

And stood in the plain - In Matthew 5:1, which is supposed to be the parallel place, our Lord is represented as delivering this sermon on the mountain; and this has induced some to think that the sermon mentioned here by Luke, though the same in substance with that in Matthew, was delivered in a different place, and at another time; but, as Dr. Priestly justly observes, Matthew' s saying that Jesus was sat down after he had gone up to the mountain, and Luke' s saying that he stood on the plain when he healed the sick, before the discourse, are no inconsistencies. The whole picture is striking. Jesus ascends a mountain, employs the night in prayer; and, having thus solemnly invoked the Divine blessing, authoritatively separates the twelve apostles from the mass of his disciples. He then descends, and heals in the plain all the diseased among a great multitude, collected from various parts by the fame of his miraculous power. Having thus created attention, he likewise satisfies the desire of the people to hear his doctrine; and retiring first to the mountain whence he came, that his attentive hearers might follow him and might better arrange themselves before him - Sacro digna silentio mirantur omnes dicere . Horace. All admire his excellent sayings with sacred silence. See Bishop Newcome' s notes on his Harmony of the Gospels, p. 19.


 
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