The info below was extracted from Wikipedia on 9/9/2024.
Suggested locations of the Sermon
Traditionally, the Mount of Beatitudes has been commemorated as the physical site at which the sermon took place. Other locations, such as Mount Arbel and the Horns of Hattin, have also been suggested as possibilities.
The Mount of Beatitudes
The Mount of Beatitudes (Hebrew: הר האושר, Har HaOsher) is a hill in northern Israel, in the Korazim Plateau. It is the traditional site of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. The site known as the Mount of Beatitudes is on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee, between Capernaum and the archeological site of Gennesaret (Ginosar), on the southern slopes of the Korazim Plateau. This site, very near Tabgha and also known as Mount Eremos,[2] has been commemorated for more than 1600 years. Other suggested locations for the Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount have included the nearby Mount Arbel, or even the Horns of Hattin.
Mount Arbel (Hebrew: הר ארבל, Har Arbel) is a mountain in The Lower Galilee near Tiberias in Israel, with high cliffs, views of Mount Hermon and the Golan Heights, a cave-fortress, and ruins of an ancient synagogue. Mount Arbel sits across from Mount Nitai; their cliffs were created as a result of the geological processes leading to the creation of the Jordan Rift Valley.
The Horns of Hattin is an extinct volcano with twin peaks overlooking the plains of Hattin in the Lower Galilee, Israel. It is most famous as the site of the Battle of Hattin (1187).
Comparison with the Sermon on the Plain
While Matthew groups Jesus’s teachings into sets of similar material, the same material is scattered when found in Luke.[1] The Sermon on the Mount may be compared with the similar but shorter Sermon on the Plain as recounted by the Gospel of Luke (Luke 6:17–49), which occurs at the same moment in Luke’s narrative, and also features Jesus heading up a mountain, but giving the sermon on the way down at a level spot. Some scholars believe that they are the same sermon, while others hold that Jesus frequently preached similar themes in different places.[40]
Q: Did he leave the crowd to go up on the mountain? The writer of Matthew said he did, his disciples then joined him and he delivered the sermon. A careful reading shows the text does not say the crowd joined them. Other scripture shows Jesus often leaving the crowds. See verses here.
From Bart Ehrman – The Beatitudes and the Lord’s Prayer, for example, are in different sections of Luke (chaps. 6 and 11), but are joined together as part of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew (chaps. 5-6).
