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“Whatever house you enter, stay there.”
(Read Mark 6:10-13)
“And He started sending them two by two.”
(Read Mark 6:6b-9)
“As the Father sent me, I also send you.”
(Read John 20:19-23)
“If one wants to come after Me…”
(Read Mark 8:34-38)
“Blessed are you poor, the kingdom of God belongs to you.”
(Read Luke 6:20-49)
“Blessed are you poor, for the kingdom of God belongs to you.”
(Read Luke 6:20-49)
“If you are the Son of God, save yourself… and us.”
(Read Luke 23:32-49)
“I am sending you as lambs amongst wolves.”
(Read Luke 9:1-6 and Luke 10:1-24)
“I will follow you! Come after me!” (Read Luke 9:57-62)
What are we to make of Matthew’s first Beatitude ‘How happy are the poor in spirit’? Does it counter or qualify Luke’s version of the Beatitude which simply declares ‘Happy are the poor’? Why the discrepancy between the two Gospel writers? What is Matthew trying to say and can it be used to somehow soften our preferential option for the poor?
