When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain and sat down. His disciples came to Him,
Do not trouble yourself over whether Matthew and Luke describe the same sermon or different ones; both Evangelists collected the chief points of Christ's doctrine on true happiness into one account, caring little for the precise order of time or place. What matters is that we have His teaching set before us clearly.
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Christ the eternal Wisdom, who lay in the Father's bosom before all worlds, preached in a mountain because the scribes had Moses' chair with all ease and honor while corrupting the law; He found no better pulpit than a desert hill. His miracles made way for this sermon, disposing people to receive instruction from one showing such divine power and goodness.
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Commenting on Matthew 5:1-2
He ascended the hill so His voice would carry better to the multitude than if He stood level with them. The exact location near Capernaum is not mentioned, though tradition points to what is now called the Mount of Beatitudes, but we have no certain proof.
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