Matthew 5:45 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 5:45

that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

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ASV

that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.

KJV

That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

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Commentary

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John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

That ye may be the children of your father,.... Not that any became the children of God, by doing things in imitation of him: for as in nature no man becomes the son of another by imitating him, or by doing the things he does but either by birth, or by adoption; so in grace no man becomes a child of God by the works he does, as a follower of God, but by adopting grace; and which is discovered in regeneration.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

That ye may be the children of your Father - In Greek, the sons of your Father. The word “son” has a variety of significations. See the notes at Mat 1:1. Christians are called the “sons” or “children” of God in several of these senses: as his offspring; as adopted; as his disciples; as imitators of Him. In this passage the word is applied to them because, in doing good to enemies, they resemble God. He makes His sun to rise upon the evil and good, and sends rain, without distinction, on the just and unjust.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1414: “No Difference” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1878)

[On this night the Tabernacle was free to all comers, the regular congregation having vacated their seats.] You see our Lord Jesus Christ's philosophy of Nature. He believed in the immediate Presence and working of God. As the great Son of God, He had a very sensitive perception of the Presence of His Father in all the scenes around Him and, therefore, He calls the sun, God's sun—"He makes His sun to rise."

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Original language & word study

24 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὅπως	hopōs	so that	G3704 →
γένησθε	genēsthe	you may be	G1096 →
υἱοὶ	huioi	sons	G5207 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
πατρὸς	patros	Father	G3962 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	of you	G4771 →
τοῦ	tou	who is	G3588 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
οὐρανοῖς,	ouranois	heavens,	G3772 →
ὅτι	hoti	For	G3754 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
ἥλιον	hēlion	sun	G2246 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
ἀνατέλλει	anatellei	He makes rise	G393 →
ἐπὶ	epi	on	G1909 →
πονηροὺς	ponērous	evil	G4190 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀγαθοὺς	agathous	good	G18 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
βρέχει	brechei	He sends rain	G1026 →
ἐπὶ	epi	on	G1909 →
δικαίους	dikaious	righteous	G1342 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀδίκους.	adikous	unrighteous.	G94 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ephesians 5:1
Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
leads to
- 1 John 4:11
  Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
- 1 Peter 1:15–16
  But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,
- Ephesians 4:32
  Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.
- Matthew 5:48
  Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
- Luke 6:35–36
  But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is…
Through
Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is…
leads to
- Matthew 5:44–45
  But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
- John 13:35
  By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”
- Proverbs 19:17
  Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.