Luke 6:23

Have simcha in that day and leap for chedvah (rejoicing), for your sachar (reward) is gadol in Shomayim. According to the same their Avot were doing to the Neviim.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

In Context

22Ashrey are you when Bnei Adam have sinas chinom (baseless hatred) for you and when they ostracize you and they reproach you and cast out your name as rah (evil) on account of the Bar Enosh. + 6:22 Moshiach, Dan 7:13-14

24But oy to you, you ashirim, for you have already received in full your nechamah (comfort).

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Cross References

1 Kings 18:4For it was so, when Izevel cut off the Nevi'im of Hashem, that Ovadyah took a hundred Nevi'im, and hid them by fifty in a me'arah (cave), and fed them with lechem and mayim —

1 Kings 19:10And he said, 1 I have been very kina (jealous, zealous) 1 for Hashem Elohei Tzivos; 1 for the Bnei Yisroel have forsaken Thy Brit (Covenant), + 19:10 i.e., Sinai Covenant 1 thrown down Thine mizbechot, 1 and slain Thy nevi'im with the cherev; 1 and I, even I only, am left; 1 and they seek my nefesh, to take it away.

1 Kings 21:20And Ach'av said to Eliyahu, Hast thou found me, O mine oyev? And he answered, I have found thee; because thou hast sold thyself to work rah in front of the eyes of Hashem.

1 Kings 22:27And say, Thus saith HaMelech, Put this fellow in the bais hakeleh, and feed him with lechem lachatz (bread of affliction) and with mayim lachatz (water of affliction), until I come in shalom.

2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked the malachim of Elohim, and despised His words, and derided His nevi'im, until the Chamat Hashem was aroused against His people, until there was no marpeh (remedy, healing).

Isaiah 35:6Then shall the pisei'ach (lame) leap like the deer, 1 and the leshon (tongue) of the illem (the mute, the people unable to utter speech) sing for joy; 1 for in the midbar shall mayim break forth, 1 and streams in the Aravah. 1

Matthew Henry on Luke 6:21-27

Blessings and Woes. 20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. 21 Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh. 22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. 23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the… Read the whole commentary →

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