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Matthew 5: The teaching on the mountain, and an oath sworn by Jerusalem

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Matthew 4:25ESV

And great crowds followed him from and the , and from and , and from beyond the .

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or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by , for it is the city of the great King.

Matthew 8:5ESV

When he had entered , a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him,

Matthew 4
Matthew 8

Seeing the crowds, Jesus goes up on the mountain, sits down, and teaches his disciples (5:1-2): the blessings, salt and light, the Law and the Prophets, anger, adultery, divorce, oaths, retaliation and love of enemies. The chapter does not name the mountain. The one place it names is Jerusalem, in the teaching on oaths: do not swear by it, "for it is the city of the great King" (5:35).

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Verse 35: Jerusalem, named in the teaching on oaths as the city of the great King.

  • Named in 5:35 as one of the things not to swear by, "for it is the city of the great King." It is named as a thing sworn by, not as somewhere Jesus is in this chapter. All 500 votes put it at Jerusalem, on the ridge of the Judean hills west of the Dead Sea.

    Today: the Old City of Jerusalem

Matthew 5, verse by verse

  1. Matthew 5:35or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by , for it is the city of the great King.