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.

Sermon on the Mount.

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.

* Sermon on the Mount

* 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.

The Sermon On the Mount by Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter, d. 1890.

While attending Jesus ' Sermon on the Mount, Brian becomes infatuated with an attractive young rebel, Judith.

'" Further location shooting took place in Sousse ( Jerusalem outer walls and gateway ), Carthage ( Roman amphitheatre ) and Matmata, Tunisia ( Sermon on the Mount and Crucifixion ).

More than any other Bible source, the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus ' call to not resist evil but turn the other cheek, are used as the basis for Christian anarchism.

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.

( If there is a Baptism it together with the Apostle's Creed may take place here or after the Sermon )

Another rendition of much of the same material may be found in the " Sermon on the Plain " in the Gospel of Luke ( 6: 17 – 49, including introductory material ).

Here is an example of Kyrill ’ s humility topos taken from " A Tale of a layman, and on monasticism, and on the soul, and on repentance "; by the most sinful monk Kirill, for Vasilij, abbot of the Caves: “( 52 ) And me: I beg you, do not spurn me like a dog, but remember me even here in your prayers, and there throw me scraps from that holy table, and may all Christians be judged worthy of that life, through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom glory with the Father and with the Holy Spirit, now and ever .” And another one from: A Sermon for Low Sunday by the unworthy monk Kirill in praise of the resurrection, and concerning the paschal bread, and concerning Thomas ’ s resting of the Lord ’ s ribs: “( 1 ) The Church requires a great teacher and a wise interpreter to adorn the feast.

In the New Testament, when Jesus mentions a " city set upon a hill " that " cannot be hidden " ( one of the metaphors of Salt and Light in the Sermon on the Mount ) he may have been referring to Hippos.

The selectivity implied may relate to the acceptance of Christian doctrines ( such as the resurrection or the virgin birth of Jesus ), or attitudes to moral and ethical issues ( for example abortion, homosexuality, or idolatry ) and is sometimes associated with discussions concerning the applicability of Old Testament laws to Christians and interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount.

Sermon may refer to:

This sermon may be compared to the longer Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew.

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 succeeding verse from the Sermon on the Mount can similarly be seen as a method for making the oppressor break the law.

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.

# 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.

# 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.

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.

In For My Own Amusement, he joked that West Buckland could be likened to schools in The Spring Madness of Mr Sermon, The Avenue and A Horseman Riding By, and that it had earned its fees three times over.

Tolstoy's understanding of what it means to be Christian was defined by the Sermon on the Mount and summed up in five simple propositions:

The meek and poor-spirited among nations are not to be blessed, and the common sense of Christendom has always prescribed for national policy principles diametrically opposed to those that are laid down in the Sermon on the Mount ".

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus repeatedly spoke of forgiveness, “ Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy .” Matthew 5: 7 ( NIV ) “ Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar.

" in Jesus's Sermon on the Mount, implying that scriptural truth or knowledge ( pearls ) should not be put in front of people ( or in this case, swine ) who do not appreciate their value.

Some groups of Christians, such as the Religious Society of Friends and the Mennonites, object to the taking of both oaths and affirmations, basing their objections upon a commandment given in the Sermon on the Mount, and regard all promises to be witnessed by God.

Pastor Gulliksen would later say, " It was an intensive course studying about the life of Jesus ; principles of discipleship ; the Sermon on the Mount ; what it is to be a believer ; how to grow ; how to share ... but at the same time a good solid Bible-study overview type of ministry.

Unlike the modern chapters, which tend to be of roughly similar length, the distance from one kephalaion mark to the next varied greatly in length both within a book ( the Sermon on the Mount, comprising three chapters in the modern system, has but one kephalaion mark, while the single modern chapter 8 of the Gospel of Matthew has several, one per miracle ) and from one book to the next ( there were far fewer kephalaia in the Gospel of John than in the Gospel of Mark, even though the latter is the shorter text ).

A significant event in the campaign was the preaching by Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, of the 1783 Anniversary Sermon of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ( SPG ), an occasion which he used in order to criticise the Anglican Church ’ s role in ignoring the plight of the slaves on its Codrington Estates in Barbados, and to recommend means by which the lot of slaves there could be improved.

His famous Sermon on the Mount representing Mount Zion ( pictured here ) is considered by many scholars to be the Typology ( theology ) | antitype of the proclamation of the comparatively Mosaic covenant | Old Covenant by its mediator Moses from Biblical Mount Sinai | Mount Sinai.