The This is Bible Project Podcast and we've been reading through the sermon on the mountain.

I'm John Collins and with me as co-host Michelle Jones. Hi Michelle.

Hi, Michelle. Hi John. Today we come to what is arguably Jesus's most famous teaching.

I follow the golden rule, okay? arguably Jesus' most famous teaching.

I follow the golden rule, okay?

Whoever has the goal makes the rules.

Actually, it's do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

It's from the Bible.

That's about treating others, how you like to be treated.

Marge, it's the golden rule.

Golden rule trumps everything.

We call it the golden rule.

Due to others what you would have them do to you.

Here's our lead scholar, Tim Mackie.

Here is a less elegant but very literal translation. So then everything you desire people

do to you so also you do to them for this is the Torah and the prophets.

This is the last of Jesus' teachings and what we've been calling the main body of the sermon on the mount.

And in many ways it circles back to the beginning of the sermon.

Here's Bible Project Scholar Michael Helmy.

So Matthew 517, he says,

I came to fulfill the law and the prophets and then the golden rule which summarizes the law and the profits

So this is the beginning and the end of the sermon the mountain

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