The Sermon on the Plain is a set of Jesus' teachings found in Luke 6:20-49. In many ways, this set of teachings parallels the longer and better known Sermon on the Mount found in Matthew chapters 5-7.

Just before delivering the Sermon on the Plain, Jesus spent a night in solitude and prayer. He then goes on to gather his disciples and name twelve of them as apostles, meaning sent messengers. Coming to a level place, a crowd comes to gather with Jesus and his disciples. They want to hear Jesus and to be healed of their diseases. As the crowd jockeys for position, everyone scrambling to touch Jesus because of the power flowing from him, Jesus begins a set of teachings that are scandalous, subversive, and perspective shattering.

People want power, and Jesus is about to teach everyone what power in the Kingdom of God looks like; and it challenges everything they think they know...