Sermon on the Plain

In Christianity, the Sermon on the Plain refers to a set of teachings by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, in . This sermon may be compared to the longer Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew.

Luke 6:12-20a details the events leading to the sermon. In it, Jesus spent the night on the mountain praying to God. Two days later, he gathered his disciples and selected 12 of them, whom he named Apostles. On the way down from the mountain, he stood at "a level place" where a throng of people had gathered. After curing those with "unclean spirits" (see also Demonic possession), Jesus began what is now called the Sermon on the Plain.

Notable messages in the Sermon include:

In after Jesus had said everything he had to say to the crowd, he went to Capernaum, which in Lukan chronology he had not visited since .

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