3 Nephi 12:3 · Matthew 5:3
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The opening beatitude of the temple sermon (3 Nephi 12:3) parallels Matthew 5:3, adding the qualifier 'who come unto me' where Matthew's beatitude is unqualified; the blessing 'theirs is the kingdom of heaven' is shared. Same-speaker parallel (position paper 2b): on the text's own account (3 Nephi 15:1) the risen Christ delivers at Bountiful a discourse he had given before his ascension; the corpus does not name Matthew as its source.
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