come under the gracious rule of God. And what do they look like? Different! The Sermon on the Mount is found in Matthew’s Gospel toward the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry. Immediately after his baptism and temptation he had begun to announce the good news that the kingdom of God, long promised in the Old Testament era, was now on the threshold. It portrays the repentance and the righteousness which belong to the kingdom. The Sermon is probably the best-known part of