The Setting for the Sermon on the Mount

• The Setting for the Sermon on the Mount

Luke 6:17-19, Matthew 5:1-2

^L He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Those troubled by evil spirits were cured, and the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all.

^M Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, and ^L Looking at his disciples, ^M he began to teach them, saying: