Ever notice how Matthew’s Beatitudes hit differently when you include the end of chapter 4?
Rolf Jacobson reminds us that biblical writers didn’t use chapter breaks—those came 1,000+ years later! When you read straight from Matthew 4 into the Beatitudes, you see Jesus surrounded by the sick, afflicted, demonics, epileptics, and paralytics from across Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, and beyond the Jordan. These are people the world saw as cursed. Then Jesus declares: blessed are you. The kingdom of God turns everything upside down.
What changes when you read the Beatitudes with this context?
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