The Sermon on the Mount site.

A commentary on the Sermon on the Mount

A simple outline 

You can get to a specific section faster via the detailed outline

This page, and those that follow, are intended to be easy to understand. Considerable supporting detail can be found in the notes pages (where available), but this is much more academic in its approach. 

The Sermon on the Mount’s basic subdivisions, as used here, are:

Later in the commentary each of these sections will be broken down further (as shown in this detailed outline).  

Before examining the text itself we will look in a bit more detail at its source, its oral preservation through the early years when Christianity was still thought of as The Way, when it was written down, its interpretation down the centuries, and then how people have chosen to divide it up so they can understand its structure.

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