The structuring of Jesus' teaching into five discourses imitates the five books of Moses, the Torah. Therefore some scholars have proposed that Matthew presents Jesus as a New Moses giving a New Law.

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Matthew's gospel is clearly written for a Jewish ... Jesus delivers five different sermons of this sort, just like the five books of Torah. There are a lot of elements in this story that resemble ...

In Matthew's gospel, Jesus delivers five major speeches, which parallel the five great books of Moses known as the Pentateuch. The first and most important of Jesus' speeches is the Sermon on the ...