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Epiphany Season · Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany · Year C

Luke 6:27-38

Be Merciful; Judge Not

February 20, 2028

The Good Samaritan (after Delacroix), Vincent van Gogh
The Good Samaritan (after Delacroix), Vincent van Gogh, 1890Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Painted in the asylum at Saint-Rémy from a black-and-white print of a Delacroix, with the colour entirely invented. Van Gogh made several of these copies when he could not go outside.Love your enemies, do good, and lend expecting nothing in return: the parable is the hardest version of that instruction, and this is the lifting.Vincent van GoghVan Gogh (1853-1890) trained first for the ministry and preached in a Belgian mining district before taking up painting, which he did seriously for only the last decade of his life.Kröller-Müller Museum, OtterloA museum in the middle of a Dutch national park, built on Helene Kröller-Müller's collection and holding the second largest group of Van Goghs.Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Revised Common Lectionary
GospelLuke 6:27-38Lk 6:27-38
Epistle1 Cor. 15:35-38, 42-501 Cor 15:35-38, 42-50
Old TestamentGen. 45:3-11, 15Gn 45:3-11, 15
PsalterPs. 37:1-11, 39-40Ps 37:1-11, 39-40

Overview & Insights

"Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful." (Luke 6:36)

In the Sermon on the Plain Jesus calls his followers to be merciful as their Father is merciful, and to stop judging and condemning. He warns against the blind leading the blind and against pointing at the speck in a neighbor's eye while ignoring the log in one's own.

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Commentary

Commentary on Luke 6:27-38Commentary on Lk 6:27-38 Working Preacher

The Lutheran home commentary reading enemy love as putting eschatological mercy into practice.

Luke 6:27-38 CommentaryLk 6:27-38 Commentary Center for Excellence in Preaching

A Reformed preaching commentary on the costly, God-imitating ethic of the Sermon on the Plain.

Luke 6:27-38 CommentaryLk 6:27-38 Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik

A verse-by-verse evangelical study of the Sermon on the Plain's ethic of enemy love.

Luke Commentaries and SermonsLk Commentaries and Sermons Precept Austin

An inductive study gateway with word studies and cross references across Luke, including chapter 6.

Luke 6:27 CommentariesLk 6:27 Commentaries BibleHub

Classic commentaries gathered verse by verse on the command to love enemies.

Luke 6:27 Verse-by-Verse CommentaryLk 6:27 Verse-by-Verse Commentary StudyLight

A large library of expositors stacked verse by verse for a further voice on the passage.

Background & Word Study

Book of Luke OverviewBook of Lk Overview BibleProject

An animated overview of Luke's structure and themes to set the Gospel in context.

Luke 6:27 InterlinearLk 6:27 Interlinear BibleHub

The Greek of the passage word by word with parsing and lexical helps.

The Church Fathers

Luke 6 (Catena)Lk 6 (Catena) Catena

Patristic comments verse by verse on the command to love enemies and be merciful.

Worship & Prayers

Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany The Lectionary Page

The Anglican lectionary page collecting all four propers for the day in the Prayer Book tradition.

Podcast

#1009: Seventh Sunday after Epiphany (C) Working Preacher

Luther Seminary scholars talk through the Epiphany 7 texts in podcast form.

Art & Music

Art in the Christian Tradition Vanderbilt

A curated index of images for this reading across the history of Christian art.

Study Hub

Luke 6:27-38Lk 6:27-38 Textweek

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