San Mateo 5:12

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez

Regocijaos y alegraos; porque vuestro galardón es grande en el cielo; porque así persiguieron a los profetas que fueron antes de vosotros.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Regocijaos y alegraos, porque vuestra recompensa en los cielos es grande, porque así persiguieron a los profetas que fueron antes que vosotros.

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Gozaos y alegraos; porque vuestra merced es grande en los cielos: que as� persiguieron � los profetas que fueron antes de vosotros.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Gozaos y alegraos; porque vuestro galard�n es grande en los cielos; que as� persiguieron a los profetas que estuvieron antes de vosotros.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Rejoice: Luke 6:23, Acts 5:41, Acts 16:25, Romans 5:3, 2 Corinthians 4:17, Philippians 2:17, Colossians 1:24, James 1:2, 1 Peter 4:13

for great: Matthew 6:1, Matthew 6:2, Matthew 6:4, Matthew 6:5, Matthew 6:16, Matthew 10:41, Matthew 10:42, Matthew 16:27, Genesis 15:1, Ruth 2:12, Psalms 19:11, Psalms 58:11, Proverbs 11:18, Isaiah 3:10, Luke 6:23, Luke 6:35, 1 Corinthians 3:8, Colossians 3:24, Hebrews 11:6, Hebrews 11:26

for so: Matthew 21:34-38, Matthew 23:31-37, 1 Kings 18:4, 1 Kings 18:13, 1 Kings 19:2, 1 Kings 19:10-14, 1 Kings 21:20, 1 Kings 22:8, 1 Kings 22:26, 1 Kings 22:27, 2 Kings 1:9, 2 Chronicles 16:10, 2 Chronicles 24:20-22, 2 Chronicles 36:16, Nehemiah 9:26, Jeremiah 2:30, Jeremiah 26:8, Jeremiah 26:21-23, Luke 6:23, Luke 11:47-51, Luke 13:34, Acts 7:51, 1 Thessalonians 2:15

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 6:22 - more vile 2 Samuel 16:5 - cursed 2 Samuel 16:12 - requite 2 Chronicles 15:7 - your work 2 Chronicles 18:26 - Put Psalms 119:69 - proud Proverbs 13:13 - rewarded Ecclesiastes 1:10 - it hath Isaiah 25:8 - rebuke Jeremiah 32:2 - Jeremiah Jeremiah 37:14 - said Jeremiah 43:3 - to deliver Matthew 21:35 - General Matthew 23:37 - thou Mark 10:30 - with persecutions Mark 12:5 - and him Mark 13:13 - ye Acts 7:52 - Which of Acts 13:52 - were Acts 24:5 - we have Acts 25:7 - and laid Romans 8:18 - I reckon Romans 12:12 - Rejoicing 2 Corinthians 1:7 - as ye 2 Corinthians 6:8 - evil 2 Corinthians 6:10 - sorrowful 2 Corinthians 12:9 - Most Ephesians 6:8 - whatsoever Philippians 3:1 - rejoice Philippians 4:4 - alway 1 Thessalonians 5:16 - Rejoice Hebrews 10:34 - and took Hebrews 10:35 - great Hebrews 11:32 - the prophets James 5:10 - for 1 Peter 1:6 - ye greatly Revelation 11:18 - and that

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Rejoice and be exceeding glad,.... Because of the honour put upon them, the glory they bring to Christ and his cause, by cheerfully suffering for it; and because of the glory and happiness that shall follow upon their sufferings:

for great is your reward in heaven; not of debt, but of grace; for there is no proportion or comparison between what the saints suffer for Christ, and the glory that shall be revealed in them by him; not in earth, but in heaven. Saints must not expect their reward here, but hereafter, when God himself will be their reward; he will be all in all; Christ and all his glory, glory and all the riches of it will be the reward of the inheritance, and which must needs be a "great" one. And the more to animate them to suffer with joyfulness, and to support them under all their reproaches and persecutions, it is added;

for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you; as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zechariah, and others; which shows, that what should befall them was no new and strange thing, but what had been the lot of the most eminent servants of God in former ages.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Rejoice, and be exceeding glad - Regard it as a great privilege thus to be persecuted and to suffer - a thing not to be mourned over, but as among the chief blessings of life.

For great is your reward in heaven - That is, your reward will be great in the future world. To those who suffer most, God imparts the highest rewards. Hence, the crown of martyrdom has been thought to be the brightest that any of the redeemed shall wear; and hence many of the early Christians sought to become martyrs, and threw themselves in the way of their persecutors, that they might be put to death. They literally rejoiced, and leaped for joy, at the prospect of death for the sake of Jesus. Though God does not require us to seek persecution, yet all this shows that there is something in religion to sustain the soul which the world does not possess. Nothing but the consciousness of innocence, and the presence of God, could bear up the sufferers in the midst of these trials; and the flame, therefore, kindled to consume the martyr, has also been a bright light, showing the truth and power of the gospel of Jesus.

The prophets ... - The holy men who came to predict future events, and who were the religious teachers of the Jews. For an account of their persecution, see Hebrews 11:0.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 5:12. Rejoice — In the testimony of a good conscience; for, without this, suffering has nothing but misery in it.

Be exceeding glad — αγαλλιασθε, leap for joy. There are several cases on record, where this was literally done by the martyrs, in Queen Mary's days.

Great is your reward in heaven — In the Talmudical tract Pirkey Aboth, are these words: "Rabbi Tarpon said, The day is short: the work is great: the labourers are slow: the REWARD IS GREAT: and the father of the family is urgent."

The followers of Christ are encouraged to suffer joyfully on two considerations.

1. They are thereby conformed to the prophets who went before.

2. Their reward in heaven is a great one.

God gives the grace to suffer, and then crowns that grace with glory; hence it is plain, the reward is not of debt, but of grace: Romans 6:23.