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So here we are on the Mount of the Beatitudes.

There's no doubt this is the scene of probably the most taught and analyzed

sermon in the history of mankind.

The Bible says that Jesus seeing the multitudes went up on a mountain,

sat down as a teacher should, opened his mouth and taught.

That teaching is probably the subject of thousands of sermons that were written

later on by so many pastors and teachers along the history.

However, in my eyes, the sermon on the Mount is one of the most misunderstood

message of Jesus and the reason is people take it out of context.

People take it out of the context of the land, the people and of Jesus' other words and other

teachings. Here we are on the Jewish side of the Sea of Galilee at the time of Jesus.

We all know that at the time of Jesus, the Sea of Galilee behind me was not all Jewish inhabited.

We know that at least two-thirds of the lake was actually inhabited by Gentile pagans.

It is the Jewish people that control only that north-western shores of the Sea of Galilee

from that canyon over there, all the way throughout the mountain of the attitudes towards,

we have Magdala, we have Ganeseret, we have Tapka, and of course, Copernium, Beitsaida and Corazine.

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