KYLE: Data inconsistency Mt 5:48

MJ. Smith

The addressee for this passage taken from the Context Menu is Crowd at Sermon on the Mount. Yet the Theme as shown in the Clause search is Disciples. I see nothing in the text that implies that the "you" of the command is a subset of the audience. Therefore, I suspect the coding is in error.

Lew Worthington

The ambiguity of Matthew's (the narrator) audience has been noted in the past. I don't remember by whom. The idea is that the disciples are recognized as the hearers at the start, but the crowd, in general, at the end. 

Of course, I have no idea if that's what lies behind the data identification in this case.