Just look at the list of the “written off,” of the “sat upon, spat upon, ratted on.” It is interesting that Simon and Garfunkel got Jesus’ point in their old song, even though many of us “scribes” miss it. We have already considered the spiritually bankrupt or deprived. Now we pass on to those who mourn. Luke refers to them as “the weeping ones” (6:21): men or women whose mates have just deserted them, leaving them paralyzed by rejection, for example; a parent in gut-wrenching grief and depression over the death of a little daughter; people in the sunset of their employable years who have lost
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