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Time after Pentecost · Proper 7 · Year C

Galatians 3:23-4:7

Clothed with Christ, Heirs of the Promise

June 25, 2028

The Baptism of Christ, Piero della Francesca
The Baptism of Christ, Piero della Francesca, 1450sNational Gallery, London
An early Piero, painted for a chapel in his home town. The dove is foreshortened into a flat white shape that could be a cloud, and the Jordan reflects the Tuscan hills rather than Palestinian ones.It is the baptism itself, with the heavens opening handled so quietly that a first look misses it.Piero della FrancescaA painter and mathematician of the early Italian Renaissance (c. 1415-1492) who wrote treatises on perspective and painted with a stillness nobody has imitated successfully.National Gallery, LondonFounded in 1824 by buying one banker's collection, and deliberately placed in Trafalgar Square so that people from every part of London could walk to it.National Gallery, London
LSB Three-Year Lectionary
GospelLuke 8:26-39Lk 8:26-39
EpistleGal. 3:23-4:7Gal 3:23-4:7
Old TestamentIsa. 65:1-9Is 65:1-9
PsalterPs. 3Ps 3

Overview & Insights

"There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:28)

Paul explains that the law functioned as a guardian until Christ came, and that faith in Christ now makes all believers, regardless of ethnicity, status, or sex, equally children of God and heirs of Abraham's promise. Baptism is described as being clothed with Christ.

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Commentary

Commentary on Galatians 3:23-29Commentary on Gal 3:23-29 Working Preacher

Explains Paul's image of the law as a paidagogos guarding Israel until Christ.

Galatians 3 CommentaryGal 3 Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik

Covers the guardian metaphor and baptism into Christ as clothing with him.

Galatians 4:4 CommentariesGal 4:4 Commentaries BibleHub

Collects commentary on the fullness of time and God sending his Son.

Galatians 4 CommentaryGal 4 Commentary Precept Austin

Word-by-word notes on adoption as sons and the Spirit of the Son crying Abba.

Galatians 3 - Barnes' NotesGal 3 - Barnes' Notes StudyLight

Clarifies Paul's Jew/Greek, slave/free, male/female formula in 3:28.

Background & Word Study

Galatians 4:4 InterlinearGal 4:4 Interlinear BibleHub

Shows the Greek of God sending forth his Son, born of a woman.

The Church Fathers

Galatians 4Gal 4 Catena

Patristic readings on adoption as children and heirs through Christ.

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