Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: BIBLE IN TEN
Episode: Matthew 5:6
Description: Monday, 11 November 2024
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
For they shall be filled. Matthew 5:6
“Blessed – those famishing and thirsting righteousness,
For they – they will be filled” (CG).
In the previous verse, Jesus spoke of the benignant inheriting the land. Now His words continue with, “Blessed – those famishing and thirsting righteousness.”
Despite most translations simply following one after the other with “hunger and thirst,” the verbs are present participles – “famishing and thirsting.” The word peinaó means to famish. To crave or hunger are only figurative meani...