NOTES for Luk 6:20-21
It is possible to imagine what fear and bewilderment Jesus' words about the coming Kingdom produced in His listeners. There everything will be unlike human ways. After all, wealth, prosperity, happiness, and a person's good reputation were all signs of God's blessing; all of this meant that God was pleased with him and would reward him even more when the appointed time of the Kingdom's fulfillment came.
But in Jesus' preaching, the poor, the hungry, those who weep, and those cast out of society are at the center of God's love, while the rich and respectable will experience His judgment. In this paradox, the distinctions between insiders and outsiders, between "good" and "bad" people, become confused and erased: none of them can be compared with the infinitely merciful God. Therefore "to us who listen" there remains only to imitate this mercy, making no distinction between the righteous and sinners; our judgment will not stand in any case before the paradoxical judgment of Christ's Kingdom.