Matthew 5:1 NIV

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 5:1-10

Matthew 5:1-10 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, as it has been well called, the magna charta of Christianity. II. The Beatitudes put before us what are those qualities and what are those results which alone the Founder of our religion regarded as of supreme excellence. Often in revivals and in confessions on our death-beds people ask us,... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Matthew 5:1-4

DISCOURSE: 1288THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE HUMBLEMatthew 5:1-4. 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: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.THERE is no portion of the Holy Scriptures for which mankind at large express so great a reverence, as that which is called the Sermon on the Mount. Some exalt... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 5:1-48

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 him: and he opened his mouth, and he taught them, saying, ( Matthew 5:1-2 ).The first thing to notice is that this Sermon on the Mount is not for everybody. The Sermon on the Mount was not for the multitudes. Jesus is not here talking to the multitudes, he is talking to his disciples and unless a... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 5:1-48

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 them, not for distinction of dress and rank, these being vain in the eyes of heaven: he looked for those whom the world overlook, he looked for his Father’s image in the crowd, the poor in spirit, the mourners, and the meek. Matthew 5:3 . Blessed are the poor in spirit. These characters are... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Matthew 5:1-2

Matthew 5:1-2And taught them. The DisciplesI. Who they are, not the rich, gay, self-asserting, satisfied. It. Their peculiar felicity.1. Secure.2. Manifold.3. Ever-enlarging.III. Their beneficent influence.1. One effect of such a character is to provoke resistance.2. But there comes out a more pleasing effect, “salt,” “light.”3. Is your character such as the Saviour describes? (Sermons by the Monday Cloth.)The PreacherJesus Christ was every way ennobled and qualified for the work of the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 5:1

1 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, falling, as it were, into the hands of the harvest man. The "children cried for bread, and there was none to break it," Lamentations 4:4 . His eye therefore affected his heart, and out of deep commiseration, He went up into a mountain ] This mount was his pulpit, as the whole law was his text.... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Matthew 5:1

seeing: Matthew 4:25, Matthew 13:2, Mark 4:1 he went: Matthew 15:29, Mark 3:13, Mark 3:20, John 6:2, John 6:3 his: Matthew 4:18-Song of Solomon :, Matthew 10:2-Numbers :, Luke 6:13-Nehemiah : Reciprocal: Matthew 8:1 - come Luke 4:20 - and sat John 8:2 - and he Acts 16:13 - and we Acts 17:17 - daily read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Matthew 5:1

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: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 his twelve disciples, but all who desired to learn of him. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 5:1

§ 36. SERMON ON THE MOUNT 1. Seeing the multitudes Gathered together, doubtless with the understanding that a great discourse was to be uttered. As Luke informs us, he had spent the night previous in the Mount in solitary prayer. In the morning he called and formally chose his twelve apostles. Luke says he then walked down with the twelve to the level plain, or “table-land.” There it was that the mighty multitudes met him; from Tyre and Sidon north, from Judea and Jerusalem south, they... read more