case, they have so much in common it is good for us to take in both. You’ll notice that both accounts begin with the Beatitudes. No wonder that the site in Israel from which our Lord is believed to have spoken became known as the Mount of the Beatitudes. In the absence of technology, were it not for the disciples, moved by the Holy Spirit, (2 Pet. 1:20, 21), we would have no way today of knowing Jesus’s words—words not only of the greatest sermon ever given but the greatest spiritual direction ever