Among the most frequently quoted Biblical sentences are the Beatitudes and yet so few persons, other than scholars, really understand the true meaning of these eight blessings uttered by Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount.

Christ preaching the Sermon on the Mount, close to his ultimate sacrifice ; ;

Altruism was central to the teachings of Jesus found in the Gospel, especially in the Sermon on the Mount and the Sermon on the Plain.

While most Anabaptists adhered to a literal interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount which precluded taking oaths, participating in military actions, and participating in civil government, some who practiced re-baptism felt contrariwise.

These groups, along with other Christians opposed to capital punishment, have cited Christ's Sermon on the Mount ( transcribed in Matthew Chapter 5 – 7 ) and Sermon on the Plain ( transcribed in Luke 6: 17 – 49 ).

In the Sermon on the Mount he set forth a new commandment concerning marriage, teaching that lustful looking constitutes adultery.

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As examples of this theme, Stookey includes the revelation of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, Christ's ascent of a mountain to deliver his Sermon on the Mount, and Christ's ascension into Heaven from the Mount of Olives.

His famous Sermon on the Mount is considered by some Christian scholars to be the proclamation of the New Covenant ethics, in contrast to the Mosaic Covenant of Moses from Mount Sinai.

Jesus depicted delivering the Sermon on the Mount.

The Sermon on the Mount records that Jesus taught that if someone comes to harm you, then one must turn the other cheek.

They also point out that in, Paul says that God will reward those who follow the law and then goes on to say that no one follows the law perfectly ( see also Sermon on the Mount: Interpretation )

His early ministry by word and deed in Galilee meets with much success, and leads to the Sermon on the Mount, the first of the discourses.

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* Major synoptic speeches of Jesus are absent, including the Sermon on the Mount and the Olivet discourse.

After he became pope in 1978, John Paul II continued on the Catholic Theology of the Body of his predecessors with a series of lectures, entitled Theology of the Body, in which he talked about an original unity between man and women, purity of heart ( on the Sermon on the Mount ), marriage and celibacy and reflections on Humane Vitae, focusing largely on responsible parenthood and marital chastity.

* It was quoted by Margaret Thatcher in 1988 in her Sermon on the Mound to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

* Sermon on the Mound ( Appalsongs, 2008 )

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was invited to address the 1988 General Assembly and gave the speech which the press dubbed the Sermon on the Mound, which attempted to suggest a theological basis for her style of capitalism.

The name is a play on Jesus ' Sermon on the Mount and on the artificial hill in Edinburgh called The Mound on which the Church's Assembly Hall stands.

The Margaret Thatcher Foundation, which reproduces the full text of the speech on its website and characterises the nickname " Sermon on the Mound " as distasteful, rates it as having key importance as a statement of Thatcher's views on religion, morality, family, social security, welfare, taxation, education, race, immigration, nationality, and civil liberties.

The first extant text of the language is the Funeral Sermon and Prayer, written in the 1190s.

A politician must not be a man of the " true Christian ethic ", understood by Weber as being the ethic of the Sermon on the Mount, that is to say, the injunction to turn the other cheek.

* The Sermon on the Mount ( according to proponents of the 33 theory, although 27 or 28 is more likely ).

" ( Leviticus 19: 18, see Great Commandment ) The teaching is part of the six antitheses of the Sermon on the Mount.

The Sermon on the Mount ( anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: Sermo in monte ) is a collection of sayings and teachings of Jesus, which emphasizes his moral teaching found in the Gospel of Matthew ( chapters 5, 6 and 7 ).

The Sermon is the longest piece of teaching from Jesus in the New Testament, and has been one of the most widely quoted elements of the Canonical Gospels.

The Sermon on the Mount is the longest piece of teaching from Jesus in the New Testament, and occupies chapters 5, 6 and 7 of the Gospel of Matthew.

While the issue of the exact theological structure and composition of the Sermon on the Mount is subject to debate among scholars, specific components within it, each associated with particular teachings, can be identified.

The longest discourse in the Sermon is Matthew 5: 17-48, traditionally referred to as the Antitheses or Matthew's Antitheses though Gundry disputes that title.

More common in recent centuries is to paraphrase the Sermon and in so doing make it far less radical.

# One of the most common views is the Hyperbole View, which argues that portions of what Jesus states in the Sermon are hyperbole, and that if one is to apply the teaching to the real world, they need to be " toned down.

For instance, while Jesus seems to forbid all oaths, Paul is shown using them at least twice ; thus the prohibition in the Sermon may seem to have some exceptions ; though in fairness to Paul, it should be pointed out that he was not present at the Sermon on the Mount and may not have been aware of all of its teachings.

This view states that Jesus in the Sermon is not saying how a good Christian should behave, only what his attitude is.

# Closely linked to this is the repentance view, which is that Jesus intended for the precepts in his Sermon to be unattainable, and through our certain failure to live up to them, we will learn to repent or that we will be driven to faith in the Gospel.

Although modern parallels between the teachings of Jesus such as the Sermon on the Mount and some Buddhist teachings have been drawn, these comparisons emerged after missionary contacts in the 19th century, and there is no historically reliable evidence of contacts between Buddhism and Jesus during his life.

The details of such a life can be observed in the Gospels, especially the historically renowned Sermon on the mount, where forgiving those who do wrong things against oneself is advocated among other pious precepts.

The " Sermon on Faith ", a portion of the Catechism, is available in modern Slovene, English, German and Esperanto.

* Matthew 5: 48 ( part of the Expounding of the Law within the Sermon on the Mount ): " Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

* Matthew 7: 21 ( part of the Sermon on the Mount ): " Not everyone who says to me, ' Lord, Lord ,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

* Matthew 7: 24-27 ( part of the Sermon on the Mount ): " Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.