The Beatitudes Matthew 5 1 1. This section of the Beatitudes is one of the most loved portions of the Gospel. It forms the beginning of what has come to be known as the Sermon on the Mount which is recorded in Matthew 5 7. The preaching of this sermon may have come a little later in the chronology of the life of Christ but Matthew placed it here at the beginning of Jesus ministry because it forms such a grand proclamation of the kingdom. It is the first of the five major discourses that Matthew includes. We first need to fill in what Matthew has included between this passage and the last one we studied. Matthew followed the account of the temptation of Jesus with a brief note that Jesus began to preach a message of repentance because the kingdom of heaven was near 4 1. In order to reach a wider audience, He moved from Nazareth to the city of Capernaum, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, but more importantly, on the main highway through the land. His declaration of beatitudes would come, but not until He called for repentance. Matthew then reported the calling of the first disciples, Simon Peter and his brother Andrew, who were fishing 4 1. Jesus promised to make them fishers of men, for He was beginning to build His kingdom. He then called James and John, also fishermen, who were mending nets in their boat 4 2. The authority of the king to call people to follow Him is clearly portrayed by these events. Then Matthew reports the popular success of the beginning of Jesus ministry 4 2. Bible Download In Plain Text Editor' title='Bible Download In Plain Text Editor' />Download the latest version of RealPlayer or RealTimes and get the latest features Official Site. A Map of Philippi and Surrounding Regions The City of Philippi and the Origin of the Church There The city of Philippi, as one can see from the map, is located in. He went throughout the region proclaiming the message of the kingdom, and authenticating His claims by healing people. Throngs of people responded to His ministry from as far away as Jerusalem. So that brings us to the present lesson, from the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus saw the crowds coming to Him, so He went up on a mountainside and sat down, the well known posture of the teacher. The traditional location of this mount is the low hills behind the region of Capernaum and the other fishing villages on the shore. His disciples came to Him, and so Jesus began to teach them. And what follows is the material of Jesus teaching. This is the first and longest message of Jesus that we have in the gospel. Jesus had been announcing that the kingdom of heaven was at hand, and He had been calling for people to repent. Now, in what has been described as the manifesto of His kingdom, Jesus unveils the foundations and character of life in that kingdom. Here He teaches the ethical guidelines for life in His kingdom and the guidelines point to the quality of righteousness that characterizes life in the kingdom, now in part, but fully in the future. The discourse was intended for the nation of Israel, the crowds who had been flocking to Jesus. But it was delivered immediately to the disciples. Various scholars have developed guidelines, or canons of textual criticism, to guide the exercise of the critics judgment in determining the best readings of a text. As the name suggests, the purpose of this site is to post materials that contain Plain Bible Teaching. If you are new to the site, start here. The translation assumes that the form translated beginning is in the absolute state rather than the construct in the beginning of, or when God. Tp Link 802.11 N Nic Driver. Online Books, eBookseText Harrolds Classroom, Student Teacher Links. Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality Explode the Myths, Heal the Church, Jack Rogers. Jesus here considered His disciples the true Israel the spiritual Israel which is already present and beginning life in the kingdom and He considered the crowds the Israel of the future, the Israel that is hoped for, who should repent and follow the king. Or to put it another way, Jesus spoke to all the people of the true will of God, the righteousness that they must all exhibit if they repent and enter His kingdom, but which the disciples had already begun to perform. So the entire sermon is directed to all. And its theme is the righteousness that is the standard of his kingdom. So in some ways this sermon will tell people just how righteous they must be to enter the kingdom, and what that righteous life should look like for citizens of the kingdom. But it does not include the details of how this righteousness may be attained. The sermon begins with the beatitudes. These qualities give a picture of the character of the true people of God, those who are a part of his kingdom and have the full blessings of the kingdom to look forward to. Taken together they give the picture of the perfect disciple of Christ who is the heir of the promises. Jesus does not here tell people how to become like this that will come in subsequent teachings. One of the most convincing descriptions of the meaning of the beatitudes at the beginning of this sermon is that they are planned echoes of Isaiah 6. Matthew constantly shows how Jesus came in the light of the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies, and so this one would fit as well. The Jerusalem Bible JB or TJB is an Englishlanguage translation of the Bible that was first introduced to the Englishspeaking public in 1966 and published by. A large collection of annotated links to Bible versions online and articles about the different translations. 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Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness,for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the sons of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. Observations on the Text. So here we have a series of proclamations without a narrative. The narrative introduction simply sets up the sermon and the sermon begins with these proclamations. Each of the beatitudes is formally a declarative sentence but each is implicitly hortatory, calling for a response. The method of studying these will be a little different. We still must think in terms of the contexts, not only the historical context of the first century Jewish culture and beliefs, but also the context of the beatitudes in the sermon on the mount, the proclamation of the nature of the kingdom. The study of this section will have to deal primarily with the meanings of the words within those contexts, especially the context of the culture that knew these ideas from their Hebrew and Aramaic languages. Here is where it would be good to have a good word study book, or a book on biblical theological themes or ideas, and possibly a good Bible dictionary if it deals with words like meek or poor or the like. Once the meanings of the words are understood, then we will have to consider the relationships between the clauses, primarily the connections between the blessed sayings and the promised result. To understand these saying we will have to relate the teachings to the biblical understanding of the kingdom of heaven as it is presented in both testaments. Here we will see that with Christs first coming the kingdom has been introduced believers are in the kingdom but we shall also see that the kingdom will yet be fulfilled in the second coming. So we will have to fit these sayings into both aspects of the idea of the kingdom.