Matthew 5-7 has been called "The Sermon on the Mount" and Luke 6:17-49 has been called "The Sermon on the Plain," as if they were two different sermons on two different occasions. The reasons given are basically three: (1). the sermon in Luke is much shorter than the one in Matthew; (2). Matthew includes things not mentioned in Luke; Luke includes things not mentioned in Matthew; and some of Luke's statements are different in form and application from those in Matthew; and, (3), whereas Matthew's has the sermon taking place on "the mountain," 5:1, Luke's takes place "on a level place," 6:17, after Jesus came down from the mountain, 6:12, 17.