Sermon on the mount

After spending a night in solemn meditation and prayer in the lonely mountain-range to the west of the Lake of Galilee ( Luke 6:12 ), on the following morning our Lord called to him his disciples, and from among them chose twelve, who were to be henceforth trained to be his apostles ( Mark 3:14 Mark 3:15 ). After this solemn consecration of the twelve, he descended from the mountain-peak to a more level spot ( Luke 6:17 ), and there he sat down and delivered the "sermon on the mount" ( Matthew 57 -7; Luke 6:20-49 ) to the assembled multitude. The mountain here spoken of was probably that known by the name of the "Horns of Hattin" (Kurun Hattin), a ridge running east and west, not far from Capernaum. It was afterwards called the "Mount of Beatitudes."