Matthew 5:2

Then he began to teach them by saying,

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,

In Context

1When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a hillside. He sat down in order to teach his disciples. They came near to him to listen to him.

3God is pleased with people who recognize that they have a spiritual need; he will allow them to be the people whose lives he rules over.

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Cross References

Job 3:1Finally, Job spoke, and he cursed the day that he was born.

Proverbs 8:6Listen to me, because I have some excellent/important things to say. What I say is what is fair/right.

Matthew 13:35By doing that, he fulfilled what God told one of the prophets to write long ago: I will speak [MTY] in parables; I will tell parables to teach what I have kept secret since I created the world.

Acts 8:35So Philip began to explain that Scripture passage. He told him the good message about [MTY] Jesus. So the official understood and believed in Jesus.

Acts 18:14When Paul was about to speak [MTY] to defend himself, Gallio said to the Jews, “If this man had acted deceitfully or disobeyed any of our Roman laws, I would listen patiently to what you Jews want to tell me.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 5:2-3

The Sermon on the Mount. 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, We have here a general account of this sermon. I. The Preacher was our Lord Jesus, the Prince of preachers, the great Prophet of his church, who came into the world, to be the Light of the world. The prophets and John had done virtuously in preaching, but Christ excelled them all. He is the eternal Wisdom, that lay in the bosom of… Read the whole commentary →

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