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Beatitudes [Lat.,=blessing], in the Gospel of St. Matthew, eight blessings uttered by Jesus at the opening of the Sermon on the Mount. Some, counting verses differently, say there are nine. In a parallel passage in the Gospel of St. Luke, only four of the blessings appear, with four corresponding woes.

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beatitudes Blessings spoken by Jesus at the opening of his Sermon on the Mount upon those worthy of admission to the Kingdom of God (Luke 6, Matthew 5).

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Beatitudes. Promises of blessing, and specifically the sequence of eight or nine sentences beginning ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit’ in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5. 3–11). The version in Luke's ‘sermon on the plain’ (6. 20–2) is shorter with more marked contrast of present and future.

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