“He began to speak to them with freedom, so as the multitude might hear.” (Poole) “Jesus Christ spoke like a man in earnest he enunciated clearly, and spake loudly. “It is not superfluous to say that ‘he opened his mouth, and taught them,’ for he had taught them often when his mouth was closed.” (Spurgeon) He spoke with energy, projecting His thoughts with earnestness. Then He opened His mouth: This means that Jesus used his voice in a strong way to teach this crowd. Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying:Ī. Others may not be excluded, but the disciples are the audience proper.” (Bruce) 2. “He ascends the hill to get away from the crowds below, and the disciples, now a considerable band, gather about Him. His disciples came to Him: This again probably has in mind a group much larger than the Twelve, who to this point have not been introduced as a group in this Gospel. Now in Matthew’s record Jesus will speak and teach it is God speaking but no longer through an inspired human personality like Jeremiah or Isaiah or Samuel now the truth of God spoke through the exact personality of God.Ĭ. “Sitting was the accepted posture of synagogue or school teachers (Luke 4:20 cf. It was customary for the teacher to sit and the hearers to stand. When He was seated: This was the common posture for teaching in that culture.

“A crypt or cavern would have been out of all character for a message which is to be published upon the housetops, and preached to every creature under heaven.” (Spurgeon)ī. His highest teaching…was meant for the million.” (Bruce) “Jesus was not monastic in spirit, and He had not two doctrines, one for the many, another for the few, like Buddha. The sense of this is much the same as in Matthew that this sermon was spoken to the disciples of Jesus, but disciples in a broad sense of those who had followed Him and heard Him not in the narrow sense of only the Twelve. Yet, in the beginning of the teaching, Luke writes: Then He lifted up His eyes toward His disciples, and said (Luke 6:20).

Luke says that this same basic material was, on a different occasion, spoken to a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases (Luke 6:17). By the end of the Sermon on the Mount, people in general heard His message and were amazed (Matthew 7:28). It is true that Jesus gave this teaching to His disciples, but this use of the term is probably broad, including many among the great multitudes that followed Him mentioned in Matthew 4:25. It is wrong to think that Jesus went up on a mountain to remove Himself from the multitudes. In response to this, Jesus went up on a mountain.

And seeing the multitudes: The previous section mentioned that great multitudes followed Him, coming from many different regions (Matthew 4:25). (1) Jesus prepares to teach His disciples.Īnd seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him.Ī.

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