The main part of the teaching of Jesus is given in a series of carefully crafted sermons or discourses designed to give the reader the clearest possible idea of the way in which the Messiah, depicted as the Redeemer of the world, set out his implementation and supplementation of the old Law. Thus the great Sermon on the Mount (chaps. 5–7) is constructed to give the reader the full power and beauty of the new spirit infused by Jesus into the old letter of the Law of Moses.
