The most extensive account of Jesus’ lecture to all sympathisers and disciples of the Way of God is the account of the first evangelist, Saint Matthew (LEVI), called the tax collector, and is placed shortly before the entrance to Capernaum, just after the calling of the first Disciples. The second account corresponding to this collection of teachings is provided by Luke, a disciple of Paul, who places the entire but more modest lecture after the selection of the Apostles and the commissioning of missionary activity to them. Undoubtedly, the Prophet and Messiah of Israel, Jesus Christ, while travelling and teaching, repeatedly delivers similar sermons and lectures to gathered crowds and must repeat them for new supporters and disciples. We have many traces of the gathering of crowds of people interested in the Teaching of the Kingdom of God in all four gospels. Many scattered and disseminated verses show their thematic connection with the content of the Foundation of the Doctrine of Christ, which the Naab (Prophet) and Teacher (Rabbi) Yehoshua (Joshua, Jesus) preaches in the “Sermon on the Mount”, reported by the eyewitness, Saint Levi-Matthew!
The Gospels in the Bible are mainly accounts of the Teachings, Advice, and Instructions given by Jesus Christ, so determining the exact place and circumstances is not important, only if it helps understand the content of the teaching of the Good News. It is important to understand, accept and realise the entire content of the Sermon on the Mount, which Jesus Christ preached to the people who came to it because it is the directly given content of the important basic Teachings, the ABC of the entire Gospel, the second part of which are also the profound Teachings preached in the Proverbs, also sometimes it is preached from a hill or a hill, which shows that the Science flows to people from above, from God, through the Prophet and Messiah sent from Heaven, Jesus Christ, the Son of God! So, let us try briefly consider deeply in our hearts the entirety of the Teaching of the Sermon on the Mount as we see it in the message of St. Matthew the Apostle, which we take as a basis due to its extensiveness, and adding to it the message of the Evangelist Luke as well as a few fragments scattered loosely throughout the Gospel (all four New Testament messages), the content and circumstances of which indicate that they were delivered during open times, public sermons by Jesus from some other hill, hillock!
Such a list, although extensive, is cognitively very interesting because it shows us the broadest possible picture of the Teachings of Jesus Christ, the basis of which he directly preached to people interested in joining his Disciples. Undoubtedly, this is the Word of God preached by Rabbi Yehoshua Messiah, which is the original name of Jesus Christ from the line of King David, whose coat of arms is and will be the six-pointed Star of Zion, the Mystical Mountain associated with the preaching of Sermons. The editor also tried to faithfully reflect the various possibilities of translating words and phrases that appear in many different translations of the Bible and the New Testament, which are expressed in replacements, after commas or in brackets because the use of synonyms and thesaurus significantly broadens the cognitive horizons of the student learning the content of the Sermon on the Mount. This study does not claim to be the final version and may certainly be supplemented someday!
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
During these days, Yehoshua (Jesus) went up the mountain to pray. He spent the whole night in Prayer with God. When the Day came, he called his Disciples and chose the Twelve from among them. And he called them Apostles(Messengers, Sanskrit: Aćaryas): Simon, whom he called Peter(Cephas, Rock), and James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother (and to them, he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder {Vajram}), and Andrew, brother of Peter; and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew Levi (the tax collector), and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus; and Simon Thaddeus the Canaanite (Zealot) and Judah– the son of James and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. After descending with them (from the mountain), he stopped in a flat place. There was a large crowd of his disciples and a great crowd from Judea, Jerusalem, and Tire and Sidon by the sea. They came to hear Him and to be healed of their diseases. Those tormented by unclean spirits (possessed) were also healed. The crowd tried to touch Him because the POWER came out of Him and healed everyone! And seeing the crowds, Yehoshua (Joshua, Jesus) went up on a hill (hill) and sat down under a spreading Tree, and His disciples drew near to Him, and He lifted His eyes on the Disciples and opened His mouth and taught them, saying:
Blessed are the poor (Ebionites, with God in spirit, vegetarians), for yours is the Kingdom of God!
Blessed are those who mourn and weep, for they will be comforted with laughter!
Blessed are the meek, the peaceful, for they will inherit and possess the Earth!
Blessed are the hungry, for they will be fed!
Blessed are those who hunger for Righteousness, for they will be filled!
Blessed are the Merciful, for they will obtain Mercy!
Blessed are the Pure in Heart (Mind), for they will see God!
Blessed are those who bring Peace (Shalom), for they are the Sons of God!
Blessed are those who endure persecution for Justice’s sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven!
10. Blessed are you when people despise you when they put you aside and insult you with slander when they persecute you and accuse you when they reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man (Spiritual Teacher, Prophet of God). And lying, they will say all kinds of evil about you because of me (Teacher, Rabbi/Guru). Rejoice and be glad on that Day and leap for joy, for behold, great is your reward (payment) in Heaven. In the same way, they persecuted the Prophets (Naab) who were before you.
Woe to you, rich people, for you already have your consolation! Woe to you who are full, for you will be hungry! Woe to you who laugh (mock), for you will mourn and weep! Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for that is what your ancestors did to false prophets (spiritual impostors).
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You (Disciples) are the Salt of the Earth, but if the Salt becomes stale, what can you salt it with? It will be no longer good for anything except to be thrown outside, where people will trample upon it! Everyone in the Fire will be salted. Keep the Salt within you and maintain Peace (Shalom) among yourselves.
You (Disciples, Chela) are the Light for the whole world. You can’t hide a city located on the top of the Mountain! Nor does one light a Lamp to hide it under a bushel, but on the contrary, it is placed on a Candlestick so that it Shines and gives Light to all those in the (God’s) House. Let Your Light shine to all people so they can see your Good Deeds (Huvareshtha), and give glory and glorify your Father (Abba), who is in Heaven.
Let your loins be girded (with the commandment) and your lamps lit! The lamp, the light of the body, is a single EYE. If your Eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of Light. But if your Eye is diseased, your whole body will be in Darkness (in Gloom). So if this Light in you is Darkness (Gloom), then what a Great Darkness it is! When no one lights a lamp (of oil), he does not put it in a secret place or under a bushel but on a candlestick so that those who enter can see the Light. When your Eye of Light is damaged, your entire body will be immersed in Darkness. Therefore, be careful that this Light in you does not become darkness (Darkness). If your whole body (soma) is illuminated because there is no part of it immersed in Darkness, it will remain completely illuminated, as if the Lamp (Oil) illuminated(enlightened, illuminated) you with its Radiance!
Do not judge, and you will not be judged because with what you judge, you will be judged (judged, gossiped about), and with what measure you measure, it will be measured back to you. How is it that you see the speck (grain, thorn) in your brother’s (sister’s) Eye and do not see the beam (rod) in your Eye? How can you tell your brother (sister): Let me take the speck out of your Eye when you carry the whole beam in your own Eye? You hypocrite, first remove the plank from your Eye, then you will see better and remove the speck (splinter) from your brother’s (sister’s) Eye!
Light came into the world, but people loved Darkness rather than Light because their deeds were evil (wicked). Whoever acts evil (wickedly) hates the Light and does not go to the Light, lest his deeds (actions, karman) be condemned. And whoever does what belongs to the TRUTH (Emet, Satya) goes to the Light so that his deeds (acts) become visible, that they were done in God!
Do not imagine (do not think) that I have come to abolish (remove, reverse) the LAW(ORDER, TORA) or the PROPHETS (Naab). I have not come to abolish (cancel) them but to fulfil and complete (replenish) them! Truly, I say to you: “Until Heaven and Earth pass away, not a single “i” (letter) will be omitted; moreover, not even a single dot over the “i” will change until the WHOLE LAW (Order, Torah) is fulfilled. Therefore, whoever breaks even one of the smallest of these COMMANDMENTS (Decalogue) and teaches and encourages others to do the same will be considered the least in the Kingdom of Heaven (Malkutah, Bashmaya). On the contrary, whoever fulfils and submits himself to the Commandments (Law), preaches them to others and teaches people will be recognised as Great in the Kingdom of Heaven! I assure you, for unless your Perfection, Righteousness, is greater than that of the scribes (theologians) and the Pharisees (parsons, episcopate), you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven (Malkutah = House of Angels).
You have heard your ancestors being told: DON’T KILL! And whoever commits murder (killing) will be answerable in court. And I tell you that everyone angry (frenzied, raging) against his brother (sister) will be subject to the Judgments. And whoever speaks to his brother (sister) Raha! Fool! he will be subject to Heaven’s Sanhedrin (High Council). And whoever says, ‘O wicked one!’ will be thrown into the Fire of Destruction (Gehenna). So if you are offering your Gift on the Altar and you remember that your brother (or sister) has some grudge against you, a trauma, something against you, leave your Gift in front of the Altar and go and RECONCILE (Reconcile) with your brother (or sister) first and only then, when you return, OFFER your GIFT! Try to come to terms with your adversary (enemy) while you are on the (Spiritual) Way with him so that your adversary does not hand you over to the Judge and the Judge into the hands of the Guardian, and so you are not imprisoned! Truly, I tell you, you won’t get out of there until you pay back your last penny!
You have heard that it was said: THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY. But I tell you that whoever looks at a woman with lust (getting excited) has already committed adultery with her in his Heart (Dil). It was also said that whoever divorces his wife must give her a divorce certificate. I tell you that anyone who divorces (throws out) his wife – except in the case of marital infidelity or adultery outside marriage – makes her an adulteress, and whoever marries the abandoned one also commits adultery. In the beginning, the Creator (Yahvah, Elohim) created Man as male and female and said that a man would leave his father and mother to be united to his wife (woman). And they will be two as one flesh. Therefore, they are no longer two but one body. Therefore, let no man put asunder what Allah (Elohim, Allah) has joined together!
You have also heard that it was said to the ancestors: DO NOT SWEAR FALSE, keep your vows (promises) to the Lord (Yahvah, Adonai)! But I tell you, do not swear at all, neither by Heaven, for it is the Throne of God, nor by the Earth, for it is His footstool, nor by Jerusalem (City of Peace), for it is the City of the Great King, nor by your own head, for you cannot make a single hair black or white. Let your speech be: Yes, Yes or No, No, and what is more comes from the Evil One, from corruption!
You have heard that it was said: AN EYE FOR AN EYE, A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH. And I tell you, do not come out and rebel (being in the power of corruption) against the Evil One (Beliar) who does evil to you! On the contrary, if someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other cheek to him as well. If someone takes you to court to take away your clothes, give him your coat as well. If someone forces you to walk one mile (one thousand steps), walk two miles (two thousand steps) with him. Give to the one who asks you, and do not avoid the one who wants to borrow from you.
You have heard that it was said: LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR and hate (despise) your enemy. But I say to you: Have compassion on your enemies, be merciful to your enemies, and pray for those who wrong and persecute you! Do good to those who despise you, calm down (silence) those who curse you! As you want people to do to you, do so to them! What reward or glory awaits you if you are merciful only to those who love you? Even sinners love those who love them! Don’t even tax collectors do this? If you do Good to those who do good to you, what glory is that to you? What is the reward if you lend only to those from whom you expect a return? Sinners also lend to sinners to receive back the same amount. Take pity on your enemies (enemies, adversaries), do them Good and grant them loans expecting nothing in return, and your reward, glory, will be great! What extraordinary do you do when you greet only your brothers and sisters? Do not even the Gentiles (unbelievers) do the same in their conduct? In this way, through Mercy, you will prove to be Sons (and Daughters) of your Father (ABBA), the Most High (Elyon), who is in Heaven, because HE is GOOD both for the ungrateful and for the corrupt, and also makes His SUN rise on the Wicked, and on the Good, and the rain falls on both the Righteous and the Unjust (the Ungodly)! Therefore, be as PERFECT (Arhats) as your HEAVENLY FATHER (Abba d’Bashmaya) is Perfect! Become Merciful (pitiful, compassionate, heartful) as your Father (ABBA) is Merciful (and pitiful) – RAHMANAN!!!.
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The first commandment is: Listen, O Israel, our Lord God (Yahvah, Elohim) is the Only Lord (Adonai)! You will LOVE the Lord your God with all your HEART, with all your SOUL, with all your THOUGHT (Mind), and with all your POWER (Strength). The second commandment is: You shall love your neighbour as yourself! There is no greater commandment than these two!
What comes out of the mouth comes from the Heart (Dil), which makes a person unclean and defiled! For from the Heart come (come out) BAD (corrupt) THOUGHTS(plans), murders (killing), adulteries (marital infidelities), fornication (licentiousness, debauchery), thefts (stealing), false testimonies (hypocrisy), blasphemies (slander) and also greed for possessions, corruption (misconduct, fall), deceit, envy, pride, all this stupidity (ignorance).
If you want to achieve Eternal Life (Immortality), keep (fulfil) the commandments: DO NOT KILL, DO NOT commit adultery (Do not cheat), DO NOT STEAL, DO NOT GIVE FALSE WITNESS (Do not lie), Respect your Father and Mother, and love your brother (neighbour) as yourself! If you want to be PERFECT(Arhat, Archon), go, sell what you have and give it to the poor (Ebionites, vegetarians), and you will have Treasure in Heaven. And then come and follow (walk with) Me!
Come to me (Teacher, Rabbi), all of you who are tired, exhausted (overworked), and burdened, and I will give you relief. Take my YOKE upon you (Yoga) and be like (become like) Me. I am meek (gentle) and humble of Heart, and you will find rest (relief) for your souls. My YOKE (Yuj, Yoga) is sweet (pleasant), and my burden (weight) is light!
Verily, whoever confesses me before men, the Son of Man (Naarayana) will also acknowledge before the Angels of God, and whoever denies me before men, the Son of Man will deny before the Angels of God! Whoever is not with Me is against Me, and whoever does not collect or gather with Me, he scatters. Whoever is not against us (opponent, enemy) is on our side. If anyone wants to follow Me (the Teacher), let him deny himself (self-denial) and take up his cross (yoke, yuj) upon his shoulders (shoulders) and follow Me. The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air (ravens) have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head! If your brother (sister) sins against you, admonish him (her), and if he repents, forgive (forgive) him (her). If he sins against you even seven times a day and repents seven times, saying to you: I repent! – FORGIVE, Forgive Him (Her).
Therefore, whatever you want other people to do to you, you do to them yourselves because this is what the LAW (Torah, Law) and the PROPHETS are all about. The SERVANT (SEVA) who knew his LORD’S WILL and did not prepare and do it according to His Will will receive a GREAT FLOGGING, and the one who did not know and committed actions worthy of beatings will receive a Small Flogging. From everyone to whom much is given, much will be required. To those entrusted with much, more will be demanded of them!
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body (soma) but then can do nothing and cannot kill the soul (psyche, ruach). Rather, fear him who, after killing the body, can throw both the soul and the body into Hell (Hades) and lose (destroy, annihilate).
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Be careful and remember not to do your good, righteous deeds in front of people so they can admire and praise you! In such a case, you will not receive any payment or reward from your Father (Abba), who is in Heaven! Therefore, when you give alms, perform a deed of mercy, do not announce it to yourself, as it’s done by the HYPOTHERS IN THE CHURCH (Ecclesia) and on the streets, to gain recognition among people. Truly, I tell you, these are already receiving their reward! When You give Alms (Gift, Zakat, Dakshina), do not let Your right hand know what your left hand is doing, so that Your act of mercy remains hidden and Your Father (Abba) who sees in secret will reward You and give back to You! GIVE, and it will be given to you. They will put into your apron (clothes) a good measure, pressed down (shaked), running over. With what measure you give, it will be measured to you. Truly, there is more happiness in giving than in receiving!
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When you PRAY, do not be like the hypocrites (hubris), and do not imitate the hypocrites who go to pray in Churches (congregations, temples, synagogues, mosques) and at street corners so that people can see them. Verily, these are already receiving their reward and payment. When you PRAY, enter your house (apartment), close the door behind you and pray to your Father, who is in secret. And your Father (Abba), who sees in secret, will reward you for it.
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will open. For whoever ASKS, receives, whoever seeks, finds, and whoever knocks, to him they open. Will someone give their child a stone when they ask for BREAD? Or if he asks for a grape (fish), will he give him an adder (snake)? Therefore, if you, even though you are so imperfect, can give good things to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father (Abba) send only GOOD to those who ASK (BEG) Him!
In your prayers, do not be talkative, do not chatter like the pagans (infidels) who think that if they talk a lot, they will be heard sooner. Do not imitate them; do not become like them because your Heavenly Father (Abwoon d’Bashmaya) knows well what you need before you even ask (beg) Him!
Believe (trust) that everything you pray and ask for, you have already received and you will have. And when you stand for Prayer, forgive (pardon) if you have anything against anyone, so that your Heavenly Father (Abba) may also forgive (pardon) you your trespasses! Have FAITH in GOD!
So pray these words like this:
Abwoon, our Father who art in Heaven,
Let Your Name (Yahvah) be hallowed,
Let Your Kingdom come (Kingdom of God)
May Your Will be fulfilled on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us our Essential (daily) bread today (for every day).
And forgive (forgive) us our sins as we also forgive (forgive)
to those who have sinned against us (our wrongdoers).
And do not (let us be led) lead us into temptation,
but save (deliver) us from the Evil One (Beliar),
For yours is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory,
now and forever and ever (until the end of the world)
AMEN! (Amein)
Forgive, and you will be forgiven! Pardon, and you will be pardoned! Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Be MERCIFUL as your Heavenly Father is Merciful. For if you forgive (forget, pardon) people their trespasses, the Heavenly Father will also forgive (forget, pardon) you! And if you do not forgive people, the Heavenly Father will not forgive your transgressions (sins) either!
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When you FAST, do not look gloomy (sad), like the hypocrites who put on a sad appearance so that people can see that they are Fasting (Starving)! Verily, such have already their reward. But when you FAST, anoint your head with oil and wash your face, not to show others that you are FASTING, but to your Father (Abba), who is in secret. And your Father (Abba), who sees the unseen, He will give you your reward.
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Do not store up TREASURES for yourselves on Earth (Gaya), where moth and rust destroy them, and thieves break in, steal, and take away. Store up for yourselves TREASURES in HEAVEN, where neither moths nor rust nor rodents destroy anything and where thieves do not break in and steal. Where Your Treasure is, there is Your HEART!
This is why I say to you: DO NOT BE ANXIOUS about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your bodies, thinking about what you will put on them. Isn’t LIFE worth more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds (ravens) above in the sky: they neither sow nor reap nor store up in storehouses (granaries), yet your Heavenly Father feeds them all. Are you not worth more than birds or ravens? Who can add even one moment to his life, no matter how hard he tries? Why worry about your clothes? Look at the LILES OF THE FIELD and how they grow! Yet they neither work nor spin. In his splendour, Solomon was not as beautifully dressed as they, as one of them. If then God (Elohim) clothes the herb of the field, which is today, and tomorrow it is thrown into the fire, will He not do even more for you, O people of little faith? Do not worry, saying: What will we eat and drink, how will we clothe (what will we wear)?! These are all things that unbelieving pagans are concerned about! Heavenly Father knows you need all this.
Seek first the Kingdom of God, seek first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness, and all these things (what you need) will be added to you! So don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will take care of itself! Enough for the day of his distress.
No one can serve two Masters (Rabbis) because either he will despise one and like (love) the other, or he will become attached to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon (the demon of profit and greed) at the same time.
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Enter through the narrow and straight GATE, for the wide and broad gate leads to destruction and perdition, and there are so many who enter through it! However, narrow is the GATE and narrow is the WAY (Marga, Path) that leads to LIFE (HAYAH, Immortality), and very few are those who find it!
Do not give to DOGS (bitches) what is HOLY, nor throw your pearls before SIGNS (Pigs), so that they do not trample them with their hooves (paws) and, turning against you, tear you apart (and bite you)!
Beware (and be on guard) against FALSE PROPHETS who come to you disguised in sheep’s clothing (gentleness), but inside are ravening wolves. You will recognise them by their FRUITS! Are grapes gathered from thorns or figs from thistles? This is how every GOOD TREE bears Good Fruit, and every BAD TREE bears Bad Fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad, rotten fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. A GOOD MAN (Bodhi-Sattva) produces only GOOD from his Good Heart, and an evil person gives birth to evil and corruption from his corrupted Heart! For his mouth utters words from what fills his Heart! Any tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the FIRE. You will recognise them, false prophets and teachers, by their fruits. Every plant that the Father of Heaven has not planted will be uprooted and burned!
The disciple (Chela) is not above the Master, nor is the Servant (Seva) above his Lord (Rabbi). It is enough for the Disciple to be equal to his Teacher (Rabbi) and the Servant to his Master. A disciple is not above his Teacher, but whoever perfects himself will be like his Teacher (Rabbi). Neither can a blind (guide) lead a blind (disciple); otherwise, both will fall into the pit, into the abyss!
Behold, I say to you that every sin (error) and blasphemy (insult) will be forgiven (forgiven) to men, but blasphemy (slander, insult) against the SPIRIT(Ruach, Person) will not be forgiven. And even if anyone speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven (forgiven) him. Still, if he speaks against the Holy Spirit (Ruach Kaddash, the Holy Person), it will not be forgiven (or pardoned) him, neither in this life nor in this world, nor the next life (world) (in the next incarnation).
Whoever wants to be great among you will be your Servant (Seva), and whoever wants to be first among you will be your slave. So the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to offer his life for many (for the salvation of many). It is not up to me to assign places on my right and left, for they belong to those to whom my Heavenly Father has assigned them!
I tell you that on the Day of Judgment, people will answer (will be held accountable) for every vain word (useless word) they have spoken in their lives. Based on Your words, you will be justified (set free), and on the basis (according to) Your words, you will be condemned (you will be sentenced).
Not everyone who calls to me, Lord, Lord (Rabbi, Rabbi), will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but only the one who does (fulfils) the Will of the Heavenly Father who is in Heaven. Many will cry to me on that Day: Lord, Lord, Rabbi, have we not prophesied in Your name (using Your name)? And didn’t we cast out devils (Demons, Evil Spirits) in your name? And have we not done many miracles in Your Name? But I will declare to them, then I will say: I never knew you (nor have I known you). Depart from me, all you who practice iniquity (lawlessness, wickedness)! Why do you call out to me, Lord! Lord! (Rabbi! Rabbi!) and you do not follow (do not do) what I say (teach)? Well, everyone who follows these words of mine and follows them (fulfils them) is like a man who builds his house on a rock! The rain came down, the floods rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, but it did not fall; it did not fall because it was built on the ROCK (for its foundations were on the Rock). Everyone who listens to my words (the Teacher) and does not perform them (does not put them into practice) in life is like a foolish (mindless) man who built his house on sand. The downpour came, the streams swelled, the winds blew and hit the house, and it collapsed and left behind only a great pile of rubble, a ruin! And his fall was great!
And when Yehoshua, the Rabbi, stopped speaking, stopped talking (preaching) teachings for the acceptance of all the people, amazement (admiration) fell upon the multitude, the entire crowd, for he was teaching as one in authority and not as their scribes (theologians). When He came down from the hill (small hill), a great crowd (of people) followed Him, and He began to heal and then went to Capernaum.
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AND THIS IS HOW our journey through the “Sermon on the Mount” of Jesus Christ has already ended, although it should be read often, at least in a low voice, and meditated on in the Heart, putting it into practice. And it is good to look at all the so-called churches, congregations and Orthodox churches claiming to be Christian. “These signs will follow those who BELIEVE: …they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover!” (Mark 16:17,18). GOD BLESS YOU AND WANTS TO SAVE YOU!
Aćarya Paramahansa Lalita Mohan G.K.
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