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Thread: Matthew’s Gospel has 5 main blocks of speech:

Chapters
5-7
10
13
18
23-25

Each speech block ends “When he/Jesus had finished...” (7:28; 11:1; 13:53; 19:1; 26:1)

But there’s more structure yet, and a textual variant...
The 1st, 3rd & 5th speech blocks go like this:

8 beatitudes (ch 5)

8 parables of the kingdom (ch 13)

7 woes (ch 23 NIV ESV #NA28 #THGNT)

or 8 woes (KJV & #textusreceptus)

This is a case where I would love to be persuaded that it should be 8 8 8.
Johann Albrecht Bengel 1687-1752 observed the parallel between the blessings (beatitudes) of ch 5 and the woes of ch 23.
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