Why does Jesus Christ preach the Sermon on the Mount in a mountain why doesn't he preach it somewhere else?

Answer 1

Because in the time Jesus lived on earth, there were no microphones, and that particular location was a natural amphitheatre. You had to find a place that had natural acoustics if you wanted to speak to a large group, in order for them all to hear you. Plus the very fact that large crowds followed Jesus made it likely He would have needed to preach to them in a place where they could all gather, and perhaps there were not many buildings that could hold that many people, let alone have the sound qualities needed for them to hear Him. The above assertion is backed up further by the fact that at another time, or possibly on several other occasions, Jesus preached out of a boat while the crowd gathered on the shore. This may well have been for similar reasons as it is known that sound carries well over water. In any case, the Sermon on the Mount is also so named as a means of distinguishing it from other sermons. It is also one of the longest we have recorded, apart from the discourses in John on the night Jesus was betrayed. If the sermon had been preached elsewhere it would have been named differently. If, for example, Jesus had preached it on a plain, it would have been called the Sermon on the Plain. Jesus certainly preached and taught constantly, which is why He got tired and fell asleep in the boat and did not wake up while the storm raged until woken by His scared disciples. Certainly, many of the ideas that Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount are repeated at other times and places, although the Gospel writers also would have sought to give us as full a picture of Jesus' teachings as possible and so probably avoided some repetition.