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The Lexham Context Commentary: New Testament surveys each book of the New Testament at several levels—Book, Division, Section, Pericope, Paragraph, and Unit—providing contextually appropriate commentary on each level. The reader of the commentary can easily ascertain the contextual importance of any larger section, or pericope, or even a particular verse of Scripture.

(5:3–12) The Beatitudes are a series of nine statements that all begin with the adjective “blessed.” The first eight beatitudes follow the same pattern of the blessed phrase, the designation of those who are blessed, and then the description clause describing why they are blessed. The ninth beatitude slightly breaks this pattern. The Beatitudes are descriptions of a state of being, not a promise of blessing. Each of these descriptions of a blessed state of being has different results.
Matthew 5:3–12
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