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The Sermon on the Mount

Eight Translations of The Sermon on the Mount
Read by Dick Frantzreb

Jesus' Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) is clearly a fundamental building block of Christianity.  In her Message to The Mother Church, 1901, Mary Baker Eddy wrote: "To my sense the Sermon on the Mount, read each Sunday without comment and obeyed throughout the week, would be enough for Christian practice" (11:16-19).

In connection with my own study of the Sermon on the Mount, I have made recordings of it from eight versions of The Bible.  Personally, I have found that the differences among these translations have helped my understanding of Jesus' words.  Perhaps you will have the same experience.

(Although many may disagree, I have arranged these links roughly so that the word-for-word translations are toward the top, and the thought-for-thought translations are toward the bottom.  Incidentally, the Amplified Bible is not in the list because its numerous, in-context alternate readings make it better studied from the text than read aloud.)
Most of these recordings are about 20 minutes in length (The Message runs 26 minutes.) If you download, they are about 20 MB each; 26MB for The Message.) Click on any of the links to listen to the recording in MP3 format.  (Your computer probably has an MP3 player installed, and it should load when you click on the link.  If this does not work, click here for advice.) To download the file to your computer, click your right mouse button (control click on a Macintosh) and select "Save target as" of "Save link as" (or equivalent).

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