George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Matthew 5:1
What is said here, does not follow immediately what was said in the preceding chapter. See Luke vi.
What is said here, does not follow immediately what was said in the preceding chapter. See Luke vi.
CHAPTER V. _Christ begins his sermon on the mount_, 1, 2. _The beatitudes_, 3-12. _The disciples the salt of the earth, and light of the world_, 13-16. _Christ is not come to destroy, but confirm...
AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES - The great numbers that came to attend on his ministry. The substance of this discourse is recorded also in Luke 6. It is commonly called the “Sermon on the Mount.” It is no...
5. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE KING CONCERNING HIS KINGDOM. CHAPTER S 5-7 _ 1. The Characteristics of the heirs of the Kingdom.(Matthew 5:1 .) 2. The Confirmation of the Law and its Expansion.(Matthew 5:...
THE BEATITUDES. -- Matthew 5:1-16. GOLDEN TEXT. --_ Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ_ -- John 1:17. TIME. --A. D. 28. PLACE. --In Galilee. Supposed to have been on Mt. Hattin,. hill south of the s...
"Seeing the crowds, Jesus went up on the mountain, and when he sat down his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them." In that brief verse there are three clues to the real sign...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (Matthew 5:1-48) As we have already seen, Matthew has a careful pattern in his gospel. In his story of the baptism of Jesus he shows us Jesus realizing that the hour has struc...
SEEING. App-133. A MOUNTAIN. the mountain. Well known and therefore unnamed, but corresponds with the Mount of Olives in the Structure of the Gospel as. whole. There is. reference also to Sinai. SET...
_a mountain_ Accurately, THE mountain, the high land bordering on the Lake, behind Tell Hûm or Et Tabigah, which the inhabitants of those places would naturally call "the mountain" (see map). It was t...
VER 1. AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES, HE WENT UP INTO A MOUNTAIN: AND WHEN HE WAS SET, HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM. 2. AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH, AND TAUGHT THEM, SAYING, 3. "BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT:...
_JESUS' TEACHINGS ABOUT BLESSEDNESS MATTHEW 5:1-12:_ "And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him. Then He opened His mouth and taught them, s...
ΊΔΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть. "Когда Он увидел..." ΌΧΛΟΣ (G3793) толпа, множество народа (_см._ Matthew 4:25). ΆΝΈΒΗ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΑΝΑΒΑΊΝΩ (G305) подниматься, ΚΑΘΊΣΑΝ...
DISCOURSE: 1288 THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE HUMBLE Matthew 5:1. _And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: and he opened his mouth, and taugh...
AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES— _And seeing such a multitude:_ Heylin: who supposes this verse to be immediately connected with the last of the preceding chapter. It does not appear in what part of Galilee...
CHAPTER FIVE Section 11. JESUS PREACHES THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (Parallels: Mark 3:13-19 a; Luke 6:12-49) TEXT: 5:1, 2 1. And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he had s...
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES [THOSE MENTIONED IN MATTHEW 4:25 ] HE WENT UP INTO A MOUNTAIN, [ e...
18-19 Compare Mar_1:16-18; Luk_5:1-11; Joh_1:40-42. 21-22 Compare Mar_1:19-20; Luk_5:10-11. 23 See Mar_1:21-39. 25 Compare Mar_3:7-8. 1-2 Compare Luk_6:20:23. 1 The “Sermon on the Mount” was proba...
5:1 the (c-9) It is well to notice here an habitual use of the article. It is a known rule that contrast, and hence one part of a thing as contradistinguished from another, has the article. This is t...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT John 5:1 to John 7:29. The Sermon on the Mount: see Luke 6:20. This sermon is so similar to the sermon reported by St. Luke (Luke 6:20), that it is
THE BEATITUDES. Properly speaking, the beatitudes are seven in number, Matthew 5:10; Matthew 5:12, forming an appendix. These three vv. being counted in, the number of beatitudes is raised, according...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 5 JESUS TEACHES 5:1–7:29 INTRODUCTION This is the first of the five main sections that report what Jesus taught in Matthew’s *gospe...
V. (1) What is known as the Sermon on the Mount is obviously placed by St. Matthew (who appears in the earliest traditions connected with his name as a collector of our Lord’s “Oracles” or discourses)...
CHAPTER 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
_Introductory statement by evangelist_. Ἰδὼν δὲ … εἰς τὸ ὄρος. Christ ascended the hill, according to some, because there was more room there for the crowd than below. I prefer the view well put by Eu...
OPENING WORDS OF GRACE AND TRUTH Matthew 5:1-9 There are many doors into the life of blessedness. It does not depend on outward possessions, such as worldly goods or high birth. There is no soul of m...
In the three Chapter s beginning here we have the Magna Charta of the Kingdom. This chapter opens with a great revelation of its supreme condition. Character is everything. The first word is suggestiv...
CHAPTER 16 SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over it, and visiting the places of...
We have in this Chapter, and the two which follow, our Lord's sermon on the Mount. A great variety of beauties is contained in it.....
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
Matthew 5:1._He went up into a mountain. _Those who think that Christ’s sermon, which is here related, is different from the sermon contained in the sixth chapter of Luke’s Gospel, rest their opinion...
He then gathers around Him those who were definitively to follow Him in His ministry and His temptations; and, at His call, to link their portion and their lot with His, forsaking all beside. The str...
AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES,.... The great concourse of people that followed him from the places before mentioned, HE WENT UP INTO A MOUNTAIN; either to pray alone, which was sometimes his custom to do...
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: Ver. 1. _And seeing the multitudes_] As sheep without a shepherd, or as grain ripe and ready,...
Mat. 5:1-11. "And seeing the multitudes, He went up into a mountain; and when He was set, His disciples came unto Him: and He opened His mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit:...
_And seeing the multitudes_ A vast concourse of people assembled from all parts to attend him, some with their sick to obtain cures, for he never rejected any who applied to him; some out of curiosity...
THE BEATITUDES. The section of Matthew's Gospel included in Chapter s 5-7 is one of the most beautiful and impressive in the entire New Testament. In the simplest language, but with singular force and...
From every direction He attracted followers, Galilee mentioned first, but also Decapolis beyond the sea of Galilee, Jerusalem and Judea, and east of Jordan. No doubt their motives for following Him we...
1,2 None will find happiness in this world or the next, who do not seek it from Christ by the rule of his word. He taught them what was the evil they should abhor, and what the good they should seek a...
MATTHEW CHAPTER 5 MATTHEW 5:1 Christ begins his sermon upon the Mount, declaring who are blessed. MATTHEW 5:13 He calleth his disciples the salt of the earth, the light of the world; and by the simili...
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X Now it is manifest that these things were said to the disciples from that which is prefixed to His words, "And seeing the multitudes He went up into the mountain,...
Matthew 5:1 And G1161 seeing G1492 (G5631) multitudes G3793 up G305 (G5627) on G1519 mountain G3735 and...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT PART 1 REQUIRED ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR UNDER THE KINGLY RULE OF HEAVEN (5:1-7). Having travelled widely throughout Galilee, and having proclaimed the need for repentance and...
‘And seeing the crowds, he went up into the mountain, and when he had sat down, his disciples came to him, and he opened his mouth and taught them, saying,' Jesus had seen many crowds, and had welcom...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
The scene (Matthew 5:1), the formal preface of the Evangelist (Matthew 5:2); the opening description of the citizens of the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:3-10); their relation to the world ...
Matthew 5:1. SEEING THE MULTITUDES. Comp. Mark 4:7-8; Luke 6:17, on the gathering of these multitudes. HE WENT UP. Not to avoid them, but to gather from them a willing audience. INTO THE MOUNTAIN,...
HE WENT UP INTO THE MOUNTAIN (ανεβη εις το ορος). Not "a" mountain as the Authorized Version has it. The Greek article is poorly handled in most English versions. We do not know what mountain it was...
Matthew 5:1 I. The Beatitudes open that discourse which, whatever may be the difficulties of particular parts of it, has always been recognized as the most important part of the New Testament. It is,...
Matthew 5:1 General Outline of the Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon on the Mount consists I. Of an introduction, beginning at Matthew 5:3 and ending with Matthew 5:16 of...
Matthew 5:1. _And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain:_ For convenience, and quietude, and to be out of the way of traffic, he went up into a mountain. Elevated doctrines would seem mos...
Matthew 5:1. _And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:_ You notice that the Preacher sat down, and that his disciples stood around him....
Matthew 5:1. _And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,-_ Our Saviour soon gathered a...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the mount. Beatitudes. Believer as salt and light. Christ's relation to the law. Divorce. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONCLUSION: The relationship of a child of God will be manifeste...
Matthew 5:1. _Seeing the multitudes,_ assembled from six provinces to see and to hear the great, the promised prophet, who had opened his ministry with glorious miracles. But our Saviour looked upon t...
JESUS SAW THE CROWDS. Luke (_ch. 6_) implies Jesus had spent the night in prayer on this hill, and that in the morning he formally chose and set apart the twelve. Coming down he finds the crowds stand...
_And taught them._ THE DISCIPLES I. Who they are, not the rich, gay, self-asserting, satisfied. It. Their peculiar felicity. 1. Secure. 2. Manifold. 3. Ever-enlarging. III. Their beneficent infl...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:1 The Authoritative Message of the Messiah: Kingdom Life for His Disciples. This is the first of five major teaching sections in Matthew 1:1 (chs....
JESUS GIVES THE BEATITUDES MATTHEW 5:1-12; LUKE 6:17-26; MATTHEW 5:1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:...
CHAPTER 5 _Went up into a mountain._ Let us inquire what mountain this was? "Some simple brethren," says S. Jerome, "think that Christ taught the Beatitudes, and the things which follow, on the mount...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT _The aim and contents of the_ “_Sermon_.”—No mere sermon is this, only distinguished from others of its class by its reach and sweep and po...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 5:1 AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES; _i.e. _those spoken of in Matthew 4:25—the multitudes who were at that point of time following him. HE WENT UP. From the lower ground by the lake. I...
Tonight we have the Sermon on the Mount, what a fantastic portion of scripture. Matthew five, And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he has sat down, his disciples came unto...
John 6:2; John 6:3; Luke 6:13; Mark 3:13; Mark 3:20;...
A mountain [τ ο ο ρ ο ς]. The Rev. recognized the force of the definite article, and renders "the mountain," that particular mountain in the place where Jesus saw the multitudes. The mountain itself c...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The key to the Sermon on the Mount is found in Matthew 4:23 : "preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom." Before the Lord sat a great crowd of p...
And seeing the multitudes — At some distance, as they were coming to him from every quarter. He went up into the mountain — Which was near: where there was room for them all. His disciples — not only...
Observe here, 1. The preacher; HE, that is, Christ, the great prophet and teacher of his church. Observe, 2. The place where he preached, upon. MOUNTAIN; probably for conveniency to himself, and adva...