The Fourteen Triads of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:21-7:12)‪.‬

Gunther Bornkamm's seminal essay "Der Aufbau der Bergpredigt" rightly pointed out that the Sermon on the Mount is carefully constructed and symmetrically ordered. (1) Where we do not see the order, he argued, it is likely that it is we who are not seeing it; the orderly Matthew likely has an order there. He pointed out several unsolved puzzles and said we should look again more carefully. To look again more carefully is what I should like to do. I. The Triadic Structure within Each Pericope in 5:21-7:12