I think if you read the Sermon on the Mount (and indeed the rest of the Bible) in most languages it will carry just as much weight. The original hearers of Jesu

I think if you read the Sermon on the Mount (and indeed the rest of the Bible) in most languages it will carry just as much weight. The original hearers of Jesus were amazed because he taught as one who had authority, not because he used words that were "authoritative-sounding". The message of the Bible is mind-blowing: "Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool." Isaiah 1:18, circa 700 years before Christ.