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Based on the NKJV, David Guzik’s commentary on Matthew assumes the full trustworthiness and authority of Scripture, combining insights from scholars throughout the ages. Guzik provides clear exposition, designed to help Bible readers understand what the text says, and what it means. Calvary Chapel pastor Guzik forgoes formality and dives straight into the text—no lengthy introductions or...

a. Blessed: Jesus promised blessing to His disciples, promising that the poor in spirit are blessed. The idea behind the ancient Greek word for blessed is “happy,” but in the truest, godly sense of the word, not in our modern sense of merely being comfortable or entertained at the moment. i. This same word for blessed—which in some sense means “happy”—is applied to God in 1 Timothy 1:11: according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God. “Makarios then describes
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