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Matthew 5
On a mountain Jesus begins the Sermon on the Mount with the Beatitudes, calls his disciples salt and light, says he came not to abolish the Law but to fulfil it, and deepens its commands: anger, lust, oaths, revenge, and love for enemies.
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Jesus taught the crowds on a hillside in Galilee.
Matthew says he 'went up onto the mountain'; Luke sets a similar sermon on 'a level place' after a night on a mountain. Neither names the hill.