The sermon on the Mount is probably one of the best known speeches of Jesus, and if you've spent

any time in a church service, then the odds are that you've heard at least part of it.

It includes the beatitudes, blessed are the meek and that kind of thing, the Lord's Prayer,

and a whole host of teachings that are held sacred by Christians the world over.

But did the writer of Matthew just fabricate the whole thing?

Today, Dr. Bart Ehrman joins me to talk about this amazing sermon, whether anything like it

exists elsewhere in the New Testament, and whether Jesus is likely to have uttered a word of it.

Welcome to misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman.

The only show, where a six-time New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned Bible scholar

uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity.

I'm your host, Megan Lewis.

Let's begin.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome back to misquoting Jesus.

Today, we are talking about the sermon on the Mount before that.

Bart, how are you doing today?

Yeah, a bit frenzied today, but, you know, that's kind of my life these days.

It's like, huh, you know, yeah, how am I going to do that today?

I don't know.

I hope it happens.

I occasionally think to myself, when the children are grown, I'll have so much time to get all of the things done.

And then I talk to you and I realize, actually, there is never enough time to get everything

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