Reading plan

The Sermon on the Mount

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Four days: Matthew's three chapters, then Luke's shorter account of the same teaching.

The Sermon on the Mount (Carl Bloch) — Bloch paints the scene this plan reads: the teaching of Matthew 5 to 7, given sitting down on a hillside to a crowd.Carl Bloch, The Sermon on the Mount (1877) — public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Matthew 5

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This plan opens 2 of the sixty-six books and reads 4 chapters in them. The dark stretches are the books it leaves closed. It reads them in the order they stand in the Bible. The mark over Matthew is your next reading, Matthew 5.

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About this plan

Matthew 5, 6 and 7 hold the best known block of teaching in the world: the Beatitudes, salt and light, the Lord's Prayer, do not worry, the narrow gate, and the two men who built houses.

The fourth day is Luke 6, which reports much of the same teaching in a different order and sets it on a level place rather than a mountain. Reading them back to back lets you see what each writer kept and where they differ.

Four days is the whole plan. If you want the commentary and the sources, the site's catalogue of the great teaching blocks is at /discourses.