Commentators ask here a question similar to that considered before discussing the sermon on the mount. Did Jesus deliver the whole discourse to the apostles as it is in the first gospel, or did the evangelist compile the discourse out of utterances of our Lord delivered on various occasions? a. The discourse is a compilation of sayings of Jesus uttered at various times, but collected by St. Matthew. Reasons: 1. The first evangelist habitually makes
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