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Which two Gospels record the Beatitudes?
Above is a painting by Carl Bloch of Jesus giving the sermon on the mount, of which the Beatitudes are a part. Bloch is Danish, which may explain why his characters look a bit more Scandinavian than Middle Eastern!
Matthew 5:1-12 and Luke 6:17-26, but the two are quite different.
You can read about the differences and some interpretations of the Beatitudes here.
Above is a photograph of a Franciscan chapel built in 1939 on the traditional site of the Sermon on the Mount. Only Matthew tells us that this was said on a mountain. Luke's version is called the sermon on the plain.