Matius 5:11

5:11 “Blessed are you when people ¹  insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely ²  on account of me.

Matius 5:1

The Beatitudes

5:1 When ³  he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain. ⁴  After he sat down his disciples came to him.

Pengkhotbah 3:16-17

The Problem of Injustice and Oppression

3:16 I saw something else on earth: ⁵ 

In the place of justice, there was wickedness,

and in the place of fairness, ⁶  there was wickedness.

3:17 I thought to myself, “God will judge both the righteous and the wicked;

for there is an appropriate time for every activity,

and there is a time of judgment ⁷  for every deed.

[5:11]  ¹ tn Grk “when they insult you.” The third person pronoun (here implied in the verb ὀνειδίσωσιν [ojneidiswsin]) has no specific referent, but refers to people in general.

[5:11]  ² tc Although ψευδόμενοι (yeudomenoi, “bearing witness falsely”) could be a motivated reading, clarifying that the disciples are unjustly persecuted, its lack in only D it sy^s Tert does not help its case. Since the Western text is known for numerous free alterations, without corroborative evidence the shorter reading must be judged as secondary.

[5:1]  ³ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[5:1]  ⁴ tn Or “up a mountain” (εἰς τὸ ὄρος, eis to oro").

[5:1]  sn The expression up the mountain here may be idiomatic or generic, much like the English “he went to the hospital” (cf. 15:29), or even intentionally reminiscent of Exod 24:12 (LXX), since the genre of the Sermon on the Mount seems to be that of a new Moses giving a new law.

[3:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “under the sun.”

[3:16]  ⁶ tn Or “righteousness.”

[3:17]  ⁷ tn The phrase “a time of judgment” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity.