The Beatitudes

All four of the gospels emphasize the importance of Jesus's teaching ministry but perhaps Matthew, more than the others, highlights it the most. In fact, Matthew goes out of his way to arrange his book around five major discourses of Jesus's teaching. The first, and perhaps most powerful, one begins in Chapter 5 with what has become known as the "Sermon on the Mount." Some have called it the "Mount Everest" of Jesus's teaching. One man called it, "Jesus's state of the universe address." There's no doubt that these words of Jesus are not only beautiful, but they are also life-changing.