Hungering and Thirsting After
Chapter 12 - The Gracious Provision - 1 Corinthians 5:7
Chapter 13 - Christ's Deliberate Work - Mark 10:45
Chapter 14 - Our Holy and Glorious God - Isaiah 57:15
Chapter 15 - The Wonderful Tree - Hosea 14:8
Chapter 16 - The Nature and Aims of Biblical Theology
Chapter 1:
Hungering and Thirsting After
Righteousness - Matthew 5:6
'Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.'
The Sermon on the Mount is rightly accorded a chief place in the teaching of our Lord. It carries a weight of authority, sets an ethical standard, and reveals heights and depths of the religious life nowhere surpassed in the gospels. The evangelists in recording it seem to have been aware of this. Matthew does not, as on other occasions, introduce the discourse with the conventional phrase "Jesus said," but with the quite solemn statement "And he opened his mouth"—thus giving us to understand that the utterance of these words was to Jesus' own mind an act to which he deliberately proceeded. And Luke conveys somewhat of the same impression by