Luke 6:23 KJV — MannaFest

Luke 6:23

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.

KJV

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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.

WEB

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.

YLT

rejoice in that day, and leap, for lo, your reward is great in the heaven, for according to these things were their fathers doing to the prophets.

DBT

rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in the heaven, for after this manner did their fathers act toward the prophets.

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Luke — Luke's 'orderly account' (1:3) follows Jesus from Bethlehem through the long travel narrative to Jerusalem and the Emmaus road.

Author: Luke, beloved physician (Col 4:14), travel-companion of Paul
Date: c. AD 60–62

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46 verses on the floor

Matthew 5:12
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Revelation 21:7
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Acts 5:41
And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
Revelation 3:5
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

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Christ justifies his disciples in a work of necessity for themselves on that day, and that was plucking the ears of corn, when they were hungry on that day. This story here has a date, which we had not in the other evangelists; it was on the second sabbath after the first (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Venture upon your sufferings, in a full belief that the glory of heaven will abundantly countervail all these hardships; so that, though you may be losers for Christ, you shall not be losers by him in the end." II. Woes denounced against prospering sinners as miserable people, though the world envies them.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

It was afterward, probably, they proposed it to his disciples. To save life or to kill - He just then probably saw the design to kill him rising in their hearts. In the prayer of God - The phrase is singular and emphatical, to imply an extraordinary and sublime devotion.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

LUK 6:23JAS 1:2 1PE 1:6-8
LUK 6:23JAS 1:2 JAS 1:12
LUK 6:23JAS 1:2 2CO 12:9-10
LUK 6:23JAS 1:2 MAT 5:10-12
LUK 6:23JAS 1:2 LUK 6:22-23
LUK 6:23MAT 5:12 JAS 1:2
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
LUK 6:23MAT 5:12 COL 3:24
LUK 6:23REV 3:5 MAT 10:32

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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