Passage Research
Matthew 5 — Sermon Preparation
The Sermon on the Mount opens — the Beatitudes, salt and light, and six 'but I say to you' antitheses. Below is a research summary for Matthew 5, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Greek words / lemmas
- 113
- classic sermon excerpts
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- preachers & commentators
Matthew 5 in the Greek
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Greek | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | KJV renderings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| μακάριος | makários | G3107 | 9 | blessed, happy |
| οὐρανός | ouranós | G3772 | 10 | air, heaven, sky |
| εἶπον | eréō | G2046 | 6 | call, say, speak, tell |
| εἷς | heîs | G1520 | 7 | a, abundantly, man, one |
| ἔνοχος | énochos | G1777 | 4 | in danger of, guilty of, subject to |
| βάλλω | bállō | G906 | 5 | arise, cast, dung, lay |
| βασιλεία | basileía | G932 | 5 | kingdom, reign |
How preachers through history handled this text
113 public-domain excerpts on Matthew 5, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Our Saviour here gives eight characters of blessed people, which represent to us the principal graces of a Christian. 1. The poor in spirit are happy. These bring their minds to their condition, when it is a low condition. They are humble and lowly in their own eyes. They see their want, bewail their guilt, and thirst after a Redeemer. The kingdom of grace is of such; the kingdom of glory is for them. 2. Those that mourn are happy. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Matthew 5:3–12 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Jerusalem— Matt 5:35
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