Tag: Proper 26C (RCL)

Salvation has come to this house

Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost; 30 October 2022; Proper 26C (RCL); Habakkuk 1:14-, 2:1-4; Psalm 119:137-144; 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12; Luke 19:1-10.

The story of Zaccheus is a story I remember from Sunday School (I suppose we sang the song about him), but it is a much more complicated story than I remember. It’s the last encounter with someone outside the circle of disciples before Jesus enters Jerusalem. It stands in the same place as the story of Blind Bartimaeus stands in Mark’s Gospel. In that Gospel, Bartimaeus is the only person who follows Jesus “on the way.” In Luke’s Gospel, Zaccheus is the one person who “gets it.”

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Living by faith

30 October 2016
Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 26C (RCL)
Habakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4
Psalm 119:137-144
2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 1112
Luke 19:1-10

In the lectionary we skip over some material in order to have the story of Zacchaeus the tax collector immediately follow the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. We leave out the encounter of Jesus and some children, and the saying that we must enter the kingdom as children, the rich ruler asking Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life, sayings about wealth, a passion prediction and the story of the healing of the blind beggar (in Mark’s Gospel named Bartimaeus). In Mark’s Gospel, Bartimaeus is the only person who follows Jesus on the way, and Mark uses the restoration of his sight as a counterpoint to the blindness of the disciples. Continue reading “Living by faith”