February 22nd, 2025

This Sunday’s title is the Seventh Sunday after Epiphany. Since Easter is so late this year, the Epiphany season is a bit longer than usual. Sometimes we do not have seven Sundays after Epiphany. But with a later Easter comes a later Pentecost, so this part of the Gospel according to Luke can come up when we are in the “C” Series during Epiphany or Pentecost, but it cannot occur at both. Within this season of Epiphany, the Gospel Reading for this Sunday is Luke 6:27-38.

If you are not familiar with the writings of this website, this writer is currently going through the Gospel according to Luke, taking a piece at a time, and taking it in the way in which it was laid out by the writer. And what follows could be called just one example of an extremely literal translation of Luke 5:27-6:16 (and it may also be helpful to know that the hyphens below connect the words in English which are just one word in the Greek text, and even if you are familiar with this section of the text, because of the extremities within this literal translation, it may be helpful to look at other translations and/or a study bible for more details; one of the reasons behind such a translation is to see the great number of words in modern English that have come to us today from ancient Greece):

And  after  these-things  he-came-out,  and  he-observed  a-tax-collector  with-name  Levi,  sitting  upon  the  tax-place,  and  he-said  to-him,  “Follow  me.”  And  having-left-behind  everything,  having-risen-up,  he-was-following  him.  And  he-made  a-banquet,  mega,  Levi,  for-him,  in  the  house,  his,  and  there-was  a  crowd,  great,  of-tax-collectors  and  others  who  were  with  him,  reclining.  And  they-were-grumbling,  the  Pharisees  and  the  Writers,  their,  toward  the  disciples,  his,  saying,  “Because-of  what,  with  the  tax-collectors  and  sinners,  you-eat  and  you-drink?”
And  having-answered,  the  Jesus,  he-said  toward  them,  “No  need,  they-have  the-ones  hygienic  of-a-physician,  but-on-the-contrary,  the-ones  a-cacophony  having;  not  I-have-come  to-call  righteous-ones,  but-on-the-contrary,  sinners  into  repentance.”

Now  the-ones  said  toward  him,  “The  disciples  of-John,  they-fast  frequently  and  requests,  they-make-for-themselves,  likewise  also  the-ones  of-the  Pharisees;  now  the-ones  to-you,  they-eat,  and  they-drink.”

Now  the  Jesus  said  toward  them,  “Not  can-you,  the  sons  of-the  bride-chamber,  in  which  the  bridegroom,  with  them,  he-is,  to-make  to-fast?  Now  they-will-come,  days,  and  when  it-is-taken-away  from  them,  the  bridegroom,  then  they-will-fast  in  those,  the  days.”

Now  he-was-telling  also  a-parable  toward  them,  “No-one  a-patch  from  a-garment,  new,  having-a-schism,  he-throws-upon  upon  a-garment,  old;  now  if  not,  indeed,  also  the  new  he-will-schism  and  with-the  old,  not  a-symphony,  the  patch,  to  from  the  new.  And  no-one  throws  wine,  new,  into  wineskins,  old;  now  if  not,  indeed,  it-will-burst,  the  wine,  the  new,  the  wineskins,  and   it,  it-will-be-poured-out,  and   the  wineskins  will-be-destroyed.  But-on-the-contrary,  wine,  new,  into  wineskins  new,  to-be-thrown.  And  no-one,  having-drunk  old,  he-desires  new;  for  he-says,  ‘The  old,  pleasant  it-is.’”

Now  it-happened  in  a-Sabbath  to-go-through  he,  through  grainfields,  and  they-were-plucking,  the  disciples,  his,  and  they-were-eating  the  heads-of-grain,  rubbing  with-the  hands.  Now  some  of-the  Pharisees  said,  “Why  are-you-doing  what  not  permitted  for-the  Sabbath?”

And  having-answered  toward  them,  he-said,  the  Jesus,  “Now-not  this  did-you-read  what  he-did,  David,  when  he-hungered,  he  and  the-ones  with  him  being,  how  he-came-into,  into  the  house  of-the  God,  and  the  Breads  of-the  Presentation,  having-taken,  he-ate,  and  he-gave  to-the-ones  with  him,  which  not  it-is-permitted  to-eat,  if  not  only  the  priests?”  And  he-was-saying  to-them,  “Lord,  he-is  of-the  Sabbath,  the  Son  of-the  Man.”​

Now  it-happened  in  a-hetero  Sabbath,  to-come-into,  he,  into  the  synagogue  and  to-teach.  And  he-was  a-man,  there,  and  the  hand,  his,  the  right,  it-was  withered.  Now  they-were-watching-carefully  him,  the  Writers  and  the  Pharisees,  if  in  the  Sabbath  he-is-therapeutic,  in-order-that  they-might-find  to-accuse  him.  Now  he,  he-knew  the  dialogues,  their,  now  he-said  to-the  man,  to-the  withered,  having,  the  hand,  “Rise  and  stand  into  the  middle.”  And  having-risen-up,  he-stood.  Now  he-said,  the  Jesus,  toward  them,  “I-question  you  if  it-is-permitted  for-the  Sabbath  to-do-good  or  to-do-a-cacophony,  life  to-save  or  to-destroy?”  And  having-looked-around,  all  them,  he-said  to-him,  “Stretch-out  the  hand,  your.”  Now  the-one  did  and  it-was-restored,  the  hand,  his.  Now  they,  they-were-filled  with-a-loss-of-reason  and  they-were-speaking-back-and-forth  toward  one-another  what  they-might-do  to-the  Jesus.