Matthew 5-7 The Sermon on the Mount - Biblical Commentary

What is more familiar in the Bible than the Sermon on the Mount? Who does not associate the speck and the log, or the Beatitudes, with the name of Jesus? Led into temptation by this familiarity, many expect nothing new from their reading… No one will open their eyes better than John Stott… The proximity his commentary maintains to Jesus’ Sermon itself does not prevent his constant attention to the present world. One senses he is nourished by reading and reflection as well as by the experience of an open-minded globetrotter… He is sensitive to the communal vocation the Sermon addresses, beyond individualism and collectivism, those two symmetrical disfigurements of humanity. Henri Blocher (excerpt from his preface).