Gospel of Matthew Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===First narrative and Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 3:1β8:1)=== {{Main|Baptism of Jesus|Sermon on the Mount}} Following the genealogy, birth and infancy of Jesus, the first narrative section begins. [[John the Baptist]] baptizes Jesus, and the Holy Spirit descends upon him. Jesus prays and meditates in the wilderness for forty days, and is tempted by [[Satan]]. His early ministry by word and deed in Galilee meets with much success, and leads to the [[Sermon on the Mount]], the first of the discourses. The sermon presents the ethics of the [[kingdom of God]], introduced by the [[Beatitudes]] ("Blessed are..."). It concludes with a reminder that the response to the kingdom will have eternal consequences, and the crowd's amazed response leads into the next narrative block.{{sfn|Turner|2008|p=101}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page