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About Mount of Beatitudes
The hillside above the north-western shore of the Sea of Galilee where tradition places the Sermon on the Mount. Seeing the crowds, Jesus went up the mountain, sat down, and began with the poor in spirit. The slope forms a natural amphitheatre over the lake.
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New Testament~28 AD
Seeing the crowds, he goes up the mountain, sits down, and his disciples come to him
New Testament~28 AD
He begins with the poor in spirit and names nine blessings before saying anything else
New Testament~28 AD
The sermon runs through the law, prayer, anxiety and judgement, and ends with two houses and two foundations
New Testament~28 AD
When he finishes, the crowds are astonished, for he taught them as one having authority
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Biblical Significance of Mount of Beatitudes
The slope forms a natural amphitheatre over the lake, and the account is careful about the posture: he went up, and he sat down. Sitting was what a teacher did, and going up is what Moses had done. What follows is not a set of rules but a description of the people the kingdom belongs to, beginning with those who have nothing to bring. The sermon has been read ever since as the charter of that kingdom, and as the hardest thing in the Gospels to live rather than to admire.
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