Now when Yeshua saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain. And after He sat down, His disciples came to Him.
Matthew 5:1 TLV
This is a deliberate parallel to Moses ascending the mountain and God speaking the Law from the mountain. Moses delivered the letter of the Law. Yeshua delivered the spirit of the Law.
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So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures, and paralytics, and he healed them. And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.
Matthew 4:24-25
#yeshua wasn't a minor celebrity in Judea. With no TV or Internet, He was a regional phenomenon. People came from all over the region to see him. He healed them all, not turning any away.
If anyone who heard Yeshua didn't believe, it wasn't because he didn't give them enough reason. Like Israel at the foot of Sinai in Exodus 20:19, they couldn't accept his words because their hearts were hard.
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