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Epiphany Season · Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time · Year C

Luke 6:39-45

The Blind Guide, the Speck and the Log, the Tree and Its Fruit

February 27, 2028

The Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
Six men fall in sequence across the panel, and physicians have identified a different specific eye disease in each face. The leader is already in the ditch.Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? Bruegel painted the sentence as a sequence.Pieter Bruegel the ElderThe great painter of Netherlandish peasant life (c. 1525-1569), who put proverbs, seasons and crowds on canvas with an eye that is affectionate and entirely unsentimental.Museo di Capodimonte, NaplesA Bourbon palace above Naples, holding the Farnese collection and the greatest Neapolitan paintings.Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
Roman Lectionary
GospelLuke 6:39-45Lk 6:39-45
Second Reading1 Cor. 15:54-581 Cor 15:54-58
First ReadingSir. 27:4-7Sir 27:4-7
Responsorial PsalmPs. 92:2-3, 13-14, 15-16 (cf. 2a)Ps 92:2-3, 13-14, 15-16 (cf. 2a)

Overview & Insights

"For each tree is known by its own fruit." (Luke 6:44)

Jesus closes the Sermon on the Plain with three linked images about integrity: a blind guide cannot lead another blind person, a person with a log in his own eye is unfit to remove a speck from his neighbor's, and a tree's fruit reveals its true nature. In each case, correcting others is empty without inward transformation first.

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Commentary

BibleHub: Luke 6:39 CommentariesBibleHub: Lk 6:39 Commentaries BibleHub

Aggregated classic commentaries on the blind guide and the speck and the log.

Enduring Word: Luke 6Enduring Word: Lk 6 Enduring Word · David Guzik

David Guzik's verse-by-verse evangelical notes on the whole chapter.

Precept Austin: Luke 6 CommentaryPrecept Austin: Lk 6 Commentary Precept Austin

Verse-level study helps and gathered quotations on the tree-and-fruit teaching.

StudyLight: Luke 6 (Barnes' Notes)StudyLight: Lk 6 (Barnes' Notes) StudyLight

Albert Barnes' close reading of the log-in-the-eye warning.

StudyLight: Luke 6 (Gill's Exposition)StudyLight: Lk 6 (Gill's Exposition) StudyLight

John Gill's full exposition with attention to the underlying Greek.

Catholic Productions: 8th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C Catholic Productions · Brant Pitre

Brant Pitre's video walk-through of all four Mass readings, including this one.

Loyola Press: Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Cycle C Loyola Press · Sunday Connection

Catholic background and discussion activities tied to this Sunday's readings.

Sermons That Work Sermons That Work · Episcopal Church

Anglican preaching resource hub, updated weekly with sermons tied to the Sunday lectionary.

Background & Word Study

BibleHub Interlinear: Luke 6:39BibleHub Interlinear: Lk 6:39 BibleHub

Greek text with parsing for the blind-guide and tree-and-fruit sayings.

BibleProject: Luke 1-9BibleProject: Lk 1-9 BibleProject

Animated overview of the first half of Luke's Gospel and its themes.

The Church Fathers

Catena: Luke 6Catena: Lk 6 Catena

Patristic comment chain gathering the Fathers on the Sermon on the Plain.

Podcast

Bishop Barron: The Revolution of the Resurrection Word on Fire

Bishop Barron preaches this Sunday’s Mass readings, including Luke 6:39-45.

Art & Music

Vanderbilt: Luke 6:39-49 Art & TextsVanderbilt: Lk 6:39-49 Art & Texts Vanderbilt

Curated public-domain artwork and image citations for the passage.

Study Hub

Textweek: Luke 6:39-49Textweek: Lk 6:39-49 Textweek

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