After shutting all the mouths of his adversaries, Jesus now turns to address the crowd around him and his disciples.  He’s going to say quite a bit about what the scribes—experts in Jewish law, including the Bible—and the Pharisees are doing wrong, but wrapped up in his words are also rules regarding how the Church…

Introduction:  put yourself in the disciples’ shoes for a second Matthew doesn’t mention anything about how the disciples’ felt, or what they did, or said—Matthew’s entire focus is on Jesus Do you believe that Jesus is the answer for every question, every problem?  The disciples were learning from Jesus and learning to trust him—later this…