Hi Gena,
Mat 5:1 But, seeing the multitudes, He went up into a mountain,—and, when He had taken a seat, His disciples came unto Him;
So He is with His disciples to start with, then in Mat 7:28, He was with the multitude.
Mat 7:28 And it came to pass, when Jesus ended these words, with astonishment were the multitudes being struck at His teaching;
Now we also have Luke's version of this same sermon with the disciples and the multitude. And here I think it may show Jesus wasn't speaking to them at the same time?
It starts out with Jesus calling all His disciples together and choosing out the 12, in Luke 6.
Luke 6:13 And, when it became day, He called His disciples, and chose from them, twelve, whom also he named, Apostles,—
I think verse 13 is when Jesus was up on the mountain with all the disciples, then in verse 17, it says He came down and spoke to the multitude.
Luke 6:17 and, coming down with them, He stood upon a level place, also a great multitude of His disciples,—and a great throng of the people, from all Judaea and Jerusalem and the sea-coast of Tyre and Zidon, who had come to hearken unto Him and to be healed from their diseases;
But when we go down in Luke 6 to verse 20, He is speaking to the disciples, so this is not in chronological order.
Luke 6:20 And, He, lifting up his eyes towards His disciples, was saying:—Happy, ye destitute, for, yours, is the kingdom of God.
So if you go down to verse 39, this now seems to be when He starts to speak to the multitude? As it says, He told 'them' a parable. He always spoke to the multitudes in parables. When He began to speak to the disciples in verse 20 He referred to them as His disciples. Now it is referring to 'them.'
Luke 6:39 He spake, moreover, a parable also, unto them: Can, the blind, guide, the blind? will not, both, fall into, a ditch?
Ok, in Matt. there is no division between what He said up on the mountain and then when He came down and spoke more to the great multitude there. It seems like it was the same day and was maybe was two sermons. The first just for His disciples and later He came down to the multitudes. Matt. seems to have just put it all together.
But when you put the 2 versions from Matt and Luke together you get a better idea.
Well that is just what makes sense to me, I hope you could follow that
mercy, peace, and love
Kat