Taking a detailed look, sections with background pages
Further background detail pages, with supporting citations, is currently available on the passages and topics shown below.
Passages
- Matthew 5:1-2 - Jesus goes up the mount and begins to teach;
- Matthew 5:3-10 - The Beatitudes, with additional notes on each verse:
- Matthew 5:3 - Blessed are the poor in spirit;
- Matthew 5:4 - Blessed are those who mourn;
- Matthew 5:5 - Blessed are the meek;
- Matthew 5:6 - Blessed are those who hunger and thirst;
- Matthew 5:7 - Blessed are the merciful;
- Matthew 5:8 - Blessed are the pure at heart;
- Matthew 5:9 - Blessed are the peacemakers;
- Matthew 5:10 - Blessed are the persecuted;
- Matthew 5:11-12 - Rejoice when you are persecuted;
- Matthew 5:13 - The salt of the world;
- Matthew 5:14-16 - The light of the world;
- Matthew 5:17-18 - Not to abolish the law but to fulfil it;
- Matthew 5:19-20 - Keep and teach the commandments;
- Matthew 5:21-22 - Anger equates to murder;
- Matthew 5:23-26 - Animosity at the altar (echoes of Cain murdering Abel);
- Matthew 5:27-28 - Lustful looks equate to adultery
- Matthew 5:29-30 - Offensive eyes and hands
- Matthew 6:1 - Righteous acts and their reward
- Matthew 6:9-15 - The Lord’s Prayer.
Topics
Many topics are covered in the glossary, but the following is a list of those that have been investigated in greater detail.
- The authenticity of the Sermon on the Mount;
- Gehenna;
- The genre of the Sermon on the Mount;
- The Gospel of Thomas and the Sermon on the Mount;
- Harmonising the Synoptic Gospels;
- Judaism’s commentaries;
- Mark 9:36-50, salt and the Sermon on the Mount;
- The Sermon on the Plain and the Sermon on the Mount;
- Parallel passages in the synoptic gospels and Thomas;
- The Ten Commandments;
- The eye;
- The right and left hand;
- The Epistle of James and the Sermon on the Mount.