Sermon on the Plain
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Jesus according to Gospel of Luke 6:17-49, may be compared to the longer Sermon on the Mount. Some commentators believe they may be the same sermon, others that Jesus frequently preached similar themes in different places, still others that neither sermons really took place but were conflations of Jesus's primary teachings as put together by Matthew and Luke.
Luke 6:12-20a sets the stage for the sermon, Jesus spent the night on the mountain praying to God, the next day he gathered his disciples and selected 12 of them whom he named Apostles, on the way down he stopped at a level place where there were a lot of people and he cured those who were sick and then looking at his disciples he began what is called the Sermon on the Plain:
- Beatitudes (6:20-26)
- Love your enemies and turn the other cheek (6:27-36)
- Treat others the way you want to be treated (6:31)
- Don't judge and you won't be judged, don't condemn and you won't be condemned, forgive and you will be forgiven, give and you will receive (6:37-38)
- Can the blind lead the blind? Disciples are not above their teacher (6:39-40a)
- Remove the log from your own eye before attending to the splinter in your friend's (40b-42)
- A good tree does not produce bad fruit and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit, each tree is known by its fruit (43-45)
- Why do you call me Lord, Lord yet not do what I command? (46)
- Whoever follows these words of mine builds on rock and will survive, whoever does not builds on sand and will be destroyed (47-49)
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