What does it actually mean to be blessed? Most of us carry assumptions about that word that Jesus directly challenges in Luke 6:17-26. In this passage, Jesus comes down from the mountain, stands on level ground face to face with the poor, the sick, and the broken, and heals them all before delivering some of the most radical words in all of Scripture. He declares the poor, the hungry, the weeping, and the hated to be blessed, while warning those who are rich, full, laughing carelessly, and universally praised.