Luke 6:23

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

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WEBBE

Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

BSB

Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For their fathers treated the prophets in the same way.

KJV

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.

ASV

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

BBE

Be glad in that day, and be lifted up for joy, for your reward in heaven will be great: for their fathers did these same things to the prophets.

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χάρητε charēte do rejoice G5463 ἐν en in G1722 ἐκείνῃ ekeinē that [very] G1565 τῇ tēa (the) G3588 ἡμέρᾳ hēmera day G2250 καὶ kai and G2532 σκιρτήσατε skirtēsate do leap for joy G4640 ἰδοὺ idou behold G2400 γὰρ gar for G1063 ὁ ho the G3588 μισθὸς misthos reward G3408 ὑμῶν humōn of you G4771 πολὺς polus [is] great G4183 ἐν en in G1722 τῷ tō (the) G3588 οὐρανῷ ouranō heaven G3772 κατὰ kata According to G2596 τὰ ta the [things] G3588 αὐτὰ auta of them G846 γὰρ gar for G1063 ἐποίουν epoioun were treating G4160 τοῖς tois the G3588 προφήταις prophētais prophets G4396 οἱ hoi the G3588 πατέρες pateres fathers G3962 αὐτῶν.¶ autōn of them G846

The early church

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He then fortifies His disciples against the attacks of their adversaries, which they were about to suffer as they preached through the whole world; adding, For in like manner did their fathers to the prophets.
Eusebius of Caesarea · d. 339Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(Hom. 6. in Hex.) Again, great has sometimes a positive signification, as the heaven is great, and the earth is great; but sometimes it has relation to something else, as a great ox or great horse, on comparing two things of like nature. I think then that great reward will be laid up for those who suffer reproach for Christ's sake, not as in comparison with those things in our power, but as being in itself great because given by God.
Basil of Caesarea · d. 379Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
For the Jews persecuted the prophets even to death.
Ambrose of Milan · d. 397Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
Great and little are measured by the dignity of the speaker. Let us enquire then who promised the great reward. If indeed a prophet or an apostle, little had been in his estimation great; but now it is the Lord in whose hands are eternal treasures and riches surpassing man's conception, who has promised great reward.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
They who speak the truth commonly suffer persecution, yet the ancient prophets did not therefore from fear of persecution turn away from preaching the truth.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 20–26

Here begins a discourse of Christ, most of which is also found in Mt 5; 7. But some think that this was preached at another time and place. All believers that take the precepts of the gospel to themselves, and live by them, may take the promises of the gospel to themselves, and live upon them. Woes are denounced against prosperous sinners as miserable people, though the world envies them. Those are blessed indeed whom Christ blesses, but those must be dreadfully miserable who fall under his woe and curse! What a vast advantage will the saint have over the sinner in the other world! and what a wide difference will there be in their rewards, how much soever the sinner may prosper, and the saint be afflicted here!

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