and whoever may give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he may not lose his reward.'Matthew 10:42 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleA cup of cold water - Υδατος, of water, is not in the common text, but it is found in the Codex Bezae, Coptic, Armenian, Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, Slavonic, all copies of the Itala, Vulgate, and Origen. It is necessarily understood; the ellipsis of the same substantive is frequent, both in the Greek and Latin writers. See Wakefield.
Little ones - My apparently mean and generally despised disciples.
But a cup of water in the eastern countries was not a matter of small worth. In India, the Hindoos go sometimes a great way to fetch it, and then boil it that it may do the less hurt to travelers when they are hot; and, after that, they stand from morning to night in some great road, where there is neither pit nor rivulet, and offer it, in honor of their god, to be drunk by all passengers. This necessary work of charity, in these hot countries, seems to have been practised by the more pious and humane Jews; and our Lord assures them that, if they do this in his name, they shall not lose their reward. See the Asiatic Miscellany, vol. ii. p. 142.
Verily - he shall in no wise lose his reward - The rabbins have a similar saying: "He that gives food to one that studies in the law, God will bless him in this world, and give him a lot in the world to come." Syn. Sohar.
Love heightens the smallest actions, and gives a worth to them which they cannot possess without it. Under a just and merciful God every sin is either punished or pardoned, and every good action rewarded. The most indigent may exercise the works of mercy and charity; seeing even a cup of cold water, given in the name of Jesus, shall not lose its reward. How astonishing is God's kindness! It is not the rich merely whom he calls on to be charitable; but even the poor, and the most impoverished of the poor! God gives the power and inclination to be charitable, and then rewards the work which, it may be truly said, God himself hath wrought.
It is the name of Jesus that sanctifies every thing, and renders services, in themselves comparatively contemptible, of high worth in the sight of God. See Quesnel.
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Matthew 8:5,6 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came to him a centurion, beseeching him...
Matthew 18:3-6,10,14 And said, Truly I say to you, Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven...
Matthew 25:40 And the King shall answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you have done it to one of the least of these my brothers...
Zechariah 13:7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, said the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd...
Mark 9:42 And whoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck...
Luke 17:2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea...
1 Corinthians 8:10-13 For if any man see you which have knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple...
a cup.
Mark 9:41 For whoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you belong to Christ, truly I say to you...
Mark 12:42,43 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing...
Mark 14:7,8 For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you will you may do them good: but me you have not always...
2 Corinthians 8:12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man has, and not according to that he has not.
he shall.
Proverbs 24:14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to your soul: when you have found it, then there shall be a reward...
Luke 6:35 But love you your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great...
2 Corinthians 9:6-15 But this I say, He which sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which sows bountifully shall reap also bountifully...
Philippians 4:15-19 Now you Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia...
Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you have showed toward his name...
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