Matthew 5:1
New International Version
Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him,

New Living Translation
One day as he saw the crowds gathering, Jesus went up on the mountainside and sat down. His disciples gathered around him,

English Standard Version
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.

Berean Standard Bible
When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain and sat down. His disciples came to Him,

Berean Literal Bible
And having seen the crowds, He went up on the mountain. And He having sat down, His disciples came to Him,

King James Bible
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:

New King James Version
And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him.

New American Standard Bible
Now when Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him.

NASB 1995
When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him.

NASB 1977
And when He saw the multitudes, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now when Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him.

Amplified Bible
When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain; and when He was seated, His disciples came to Him.

Christian Standard Bible
When he saw the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and after he sat down, his disciples came to him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When He saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain, and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him.

American Standard Version
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But when Yeshua saw the crowds, he went up into a mountain and when he sat down his disciples came near to him.

Contemporary English Version
When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on the side of a mountain and sat down. Jesus' disciples gathered around him,

Douay-Rheims Bible
AND seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain, and when he was set down, his disciples came unto him.

English Revised Version
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up a mountain and sat down. His disciples came to him,

Good News Translation
Jesus saw the crowds and went up a hill, where he sat down. His disciples gathered around him,

International Standard Version
When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on the hill. After taking his seat, his disciples came to him,

Literal Standard Version
And having seen the multitudes, He went up to the mountain, and He having sat down, His disciples came to Him,

Majority Standard Bible
When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain and sat down. His disciples came to Him,

New American Bible
When he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him.

NET Bible
When he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain. After he sat down his disciples came to him.

New Revised Standard Version
When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples came to him.

New Heart English Bible
And seeing the crowds, he went up onto the mountain, and when he had sat down, his disciples came to him.

Webster's Bible Translation
And seeing the multitudes, he ascended a mountain: and when he was seated, his disciples came to him.

Weymouth New Testament
Seeing the multitude of people, Jesus went up the Hill. There He seated Himself, and when His disciples came to Him,

World English Bible
Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him.

Young's Literal Translation
And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him,

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Context
The Sermon on the Mount
1When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain and sat down. His disciples came to Him, 2and He began to teach them, saying:…

Cross References
Matthew 5:2
and He began to teach them, saying:

Mark 3:13
Then Jesus went up on the mountain and called for those He wanted, and they came to Him.

Luke 6:12
In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.

Luke 6:17
Then Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of His disciples was there, along with a great number of people from all over Judea, Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon.

Luke 6:20
Looking up at His disciples, Jesus said: "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

Luke 9:28
About eight days after Jesus had said these things, He took with Him Peter, John, and James, and went up on a mountain to pray.

John 6:3
Then Jesus went up on the mountain and sat down with His disciples.


Treasury of Scripture

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came to him:

seeing.

Matthew 4:25
And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.

Matthew 13:2
And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.

Mark 4:1
And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.

he went.

Matthew 15:29
And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.

Mark 3:13,20
And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him…

John 6:2,3
And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased…

his.

Matthew 4:18-22
And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers…

Matthew 10:2-4
Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; …

Luke 6:13-16
And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles; …

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Matthew 5
1. Jesus' sermon on the mount:
3. The Beattitudes;
13. the salt of the earth;
14. the light of the world.
17. He came to fulfill the law.
21. What it is to kill;
27. to commit adultery;
33. to swear.
38. He exhorts to forgive wrong,
43. to love our enemies;
48. and to labor after perfection.














V.

(1) What is known as the Sermon on the Mount is obviously placed by St. Matthew (who appears in the earliest traditions connected with his name as a collector of our Lord's "Oracles" or discourses) in the fore-front of his record of His work, as a great pattern-discourse, that which more than any other represented the teaching with which He began His work. Few will fail to recognise the fitness of its position, and the influence which it has exercised wherever the Gospel record has found its way. More than any other part of that record did it impress itself on the minds of men in the first age of the Church, and more often is it quoted by the writers of that period--St. James, and Barnabas, and Clement of Rome, and Ignatius, and Polycarp. More than any other portion, in recent time, has it attracted the admiring reverence even of many who did not look on the Preacher of the Sermon as the faith of Christendom looks on Him. Not unfrequently its teaching, as being purely ethical, has been contrasted with the more dogmatic character of the discourses that appear in St. John. How far that contrast really exists will appear as we interpret it. Two preliminary questions, however, present themselves: (1) Have we here the actual verbatim report of one single discourse? (2) Is that discourse the same as that which we find in Luke 6:20-49, and which, for the sake of distinctness, we may call the Sermon on the Plain? Following the method hitherto adopted in dealing with problems which rise from the comparison of one Gospel with another, the latter inquiry will be postponed till we have to meet it in writing on St. Luke's Gospel. Here it will be enough to state the conclusion which seems to be most probable, that the two discourses are quite distinct, and that each has traceably a purpose and method of its own. The other question calls for discussion now.

At first sight there is much that favours the belief that the Sermon on the Mount is, as it were, a pattern discourse, framed out of the fragments of many like discourses. Not only is there a large element common to it and to the Sermon on the Plain, but we find many other portions of it scattered here and there in other parts of St. Luke's Gospel. Thus we have:--

-1Matthew 5:13

. . .

Luke 14:34

-2Matthew 5:18 . . .

Verse 1. - And seeing the multitudes; i.e. those spoken of in Matthew 4:25 - the multitudes who were at that point of time following him. He went up. From the lower ground by the lake. Into a mountain; Revised Version, into the mountain (εἰς τὸ ὄρος); i.e. not any special mountain, but "the mountain nearest the place spoken of - the mountain near by" (Thayer); in contrast to any lower place, whether that was itself fairly high ground (as probably Luke 9:28) or the shore of the lake (Matthew 14:23 [parallel passages: Mark 6:46; John 6:15]; 15:29). The actual spot here referred to may have been far from, or, and more probably (Matthew 4:18), near to, the Lake of Gennesareth. It cannot now be identified. The traditional "Mount of Beatitudes" is Karn-Hattin, "a round, rocky hill" (Socin's Baedeker, p. 366), "a square-shaped hill with two tops" (Stanley, p. 368), about five miles north-west of Tiberias. This tradition, dating only from the time of the Crusades, is accepted by Stanley (cf. also Ellicott, 'Hist. Lects.,' p. 178), especially for the reasons that

(1) τὸ ὄρος is equivalent to "the mountain" as a distinct name, and this mountain alone, with the exception of Tabor which is too distant, stands separate from the uniform barrier of hills round the lake;

(2) "the platform at the top is evidently suitable for the collection of a multitude, and corresponds precisely to the 'level place' (τόπου πεδινοῦ, Luke 6:17) to which our Lord would 'come down,' as from one of its higher horns, to address the people." But these reasons seem insufficient. And when he was set; Revised Version, had sat down; as his custom was when preaching (Matthew 13:1; Matthew 24:3; Mark 9:35). His disciples; i.e. the twelve, and also those others out of whom they had, as it seems, just been chosen (Luke 6:12, 20). The word is used of all those personal followers who, as still more distinctly indicated in the Fourth Gospel, attached themselves to him to learn of him, at least until the time of the crisis in John 6:66, when many withdrew (cf. also infra, Matthew 8:21, and for an example in the end of his ministry, Luke 19:37). In English we unavoidably miss some of the meaning of μαθητής, to our loss, as may be seen from the saying of Ignatius, 'Magn.,' § 10, Μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ γενόμενοι μάθωμεν κατὰ Ξριστιανισμὸν ζῇν Came unto him (προσῆλθαν αὐτῷ). Came up to him, and, presumably, sat down in front of him to listen.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
When
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

Jesus saw
Ἰδὼν (Idōn)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3708: Properly, to stare at, i.e. to discern clearly; by extension, to attend to; by Hebraism, to experience; passively, to appear.

the
τοὺς (tous)
Article - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

crowds,
ὄχλους (ochlous)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3793: From a derivative of echo; a throng; by implication, the rabble; by extension, a class of people; figuratively, a riot.

He went up
ἀνέβη (anebē)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 305: To go up, mount, ascend; of things: I rise, spring up, come up. From ana and the base of basis; to go up.

on
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

the
τὸ (to)
Article - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

mountain
ὄρος (oros)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3735: A mountain, hill. Probably from an obsolete oro; a mountain: -hill, mount(-ain).

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

sat down.
καθίσαντος (kathisantos)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2523: Another form for kathezomai; to seat down, i.e. Set; intransitively, to sit; figuratively, to settle.

His
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

disciples
μαθηταὶ (mathētai)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3101: A learner, disciple, pupil. From manthano; a learner, i.e. Pupil.

came
προσῆλθαν (prosēlthan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 4334: From pros and erchomai; to approach, i.e. come near, visit, or worship, assent to.

to Him,
αὐτῷ (autō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.


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