Over the past three years, my research has focused on the beatitudes and woes in Luke’s Gospel (Luke 6:20-26). As a result, I am way more familiar with Luke’s beatitudes than the more famous series in Matthew 5. To try and rectify this, I am going to do a series of posts comparing these two series of beatitudes (and, in Luke’s case, woes).
Let’s begin with a translation of the two passages.
