The Sermon on the Mount is the longest teaching from Jesus in the New Testament and the most widely used, it is also one of the most widely quoted elements in the Gospels. It contains the Beatitudes, and the widely recited Lord's Prayer. To most believers in Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount contains the central teachings of Christian discipleship. On the Sermon on the Mount, Augustine truly masters the teachings of Jesus and expounds with a pastoral and theological heart that is surpassed by no other work on this subject.