Blessed are the Poor
Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. (Luke 6:20b)
Jesus had been healing multitudes of people, and then He turned His attention to His disciples as He began to speak what we call the Beatitudes. In this first verse of the Beatitudes, there can be a few ways to interpret what “poor” means, but we know that whomever Jesus is referring, theirs is the kingdom of God. In Matthew 5, when Jesus gives the Sermon on the Mount, He says something very similar - Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:3).
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