Sermon Tone Analysis

*Textual Study*

*Luke 19:1-10*

*Liturgical Date: Twenty-Fourth Sunday *

*After Pentecost Year C*

*An Evangelism Message*

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!! Liturgical Setting

·        Color is green, the color of growth, life, a time of spiritual growth.

Pentecost is the Time of the Church, which emphasizes the work of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit was sent by Christ to teach us the way of Christ.

* Collect

O Lord, we pray that the visitation of your grace may so cleanse our thoughts and minds that your Son Jesus, when he shall come, may find in us a fit dwelling place; through Jesus Christ , our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

/We pray that receiving your grace will cleanse our thoughts so Jesus will find a fit dwelling place within us./

* Introit

* Visual Images – I am laid low in the dust, I seek you with all my heart, I have hidden your word in my heart, I delight in your decrees

* Gospel facets – renew my life according to your word, blessed are they whose ways are blameless, blessed are those who keep his statutes.

* Readings

* Exodus 34:5-9 /The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

He forgives iniquity and sin but will not clear the guilty to the third and fourth generation.

Moses asked the Lord to go in the midst of Israel, pardon their sin and take them for his inheritance./

* 2 Thessalonians 1:1-5, 11-12 /We give thanks for you Thessalonians because your faith and love for one another is increasing.

We boast about your steadfast faith in persecution and affliction.

This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God.

We always pray that God will continue to make you worth of his calling and fulfill every resolve for good and work of faith by his power so that Jesus Christ may be glorified./

* Luke 19:1-10 /A rich, chief tax collector named Zacchaeus wanted to meet Jesus so he climbed in a sycamore tree that Jesus was to walk by.

Jesus asked Zacchaeus to come down because he wanted to stay with him that night.

Zacchaeus was joyful as the crowd grumbled and complained that Jesus was going to stay with a sinner.

Zacchaeus offered to restore any one he had defrauded fourfold.

Jesus said salvation had come to Zacchaeus’ house that day because the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost./

* Verse

Alleluia.

Alleluia.

The Lord says, “Yes, I am coming soon.”

Amen.

Come, Lord Jesus.

Alleluia.

* Gradual /They have come out of the great tribulation, washed their robes in the blood of the lamb and made them white.

Blessed are those whose strength is in you and set their hearts on pilgrimage.

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* Summary of the Liturgical Setting

God comes to cleanse our hearts and minds and bring renewal.

He is merciful, slow to anger, and abounds in steadfast love and faithfulness.

We may suffer affliction, but it makes us worthy of his calling.

He is coming to our hearts today in our worship.

He will return to the earth soon at the end of time when our robes will be pure white as he has washed away our sin in his blood.

!! Exegetical Analysis

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The Original Language

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Textual Variants

There are no significant variants

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Vocabulary

| Verse | Word | Parse | Translation | Linguistic Significance |

| 1 | εἰσελθὼν | Aor PartMSN | going into | Focus on the action of going in |

| 1 | διήρχετο | Impf 3S middle | He was passing through | What Jesus was doing, he was passing through |

| 2 | καλούμενος | Pres Pass Part MSN | He was called by | Other people called him by |

| 2 | ἀρχιτελώνης | Noun MSN | Chief tax collector | He was prominent in his field, a person who would be especially hated by the Jews |

| 2 | πλούσιος | Adj.

MSN | Abundantly wealthy | He was very rich because of his work.

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| 3 | ἐζήτει | Impf.

3S | Was seeking | What Zacchaeus was doing, seeking continually |

| 3 | ἰδεῖν | Aor Infin | To see | Focus on Zacchaeus’ action of seeing |

| 3 | ἠδύνατο | Impf Pass3S | Was being unable | The crowd was preventing |

| 3 | μικρὸς | Adj | Small | Can also be taken as insignificant |

| 4 | προδραμὼν | Aor part | Was running ahead | Focus on action |

| 4 | ἀνέβη | Aor 3S | To go up | He climbed up |

| 4 | συκομορέαν | noun | sycamore | An inferior type of fig tree used by the poor for wood and food.

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| 4 | ἴδῃ | Aor 3S Subj.

| He might see | Some uncertainty implied.

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| 4 | ἤμελλεν | Impf.

3s | He was about to | Focus on connection in past time.

Jesus was about to |

| 4 | διέρχεσθαι | Pres inf.

| To pass by | Focus on connection, Jesus was who was to pass by.

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| 5 | ἀναβλέψας | Aor act part MSN | While he was looking up | Focus on Jesus’ action of looking up.

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| 5 | Ζακχαῖε | Noun Voc-ative | Zaccheaus | Zaccheaus!! (Emphatic) |

| 5 | Σπεύσας κατάβηθι | Aor part + Aor Imper.

| Come down quickly!

| A command focusing on the action.

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| 5 | δεῖ | Pres 3S | It is necessary | I must, Jesus felt it was necessary to do so.

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| 6 | ὑπεδέξατο | Aor 3S Mid | He welcomed | It was a warm invitation |

| 6 | χαίρων | Pres part msn | joyfully | It was a happy occasion |

| 7 | διεγόγγυζον | Imperf 3 P | Were murmuring to themselves | Focus on connection in past time, the crowds were murmuring to themselves |

| 7 | ἁμαρτωλῷ | Adj | Sinful | Often referred to as social outcasts.

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| 7 | καταλῦσαι | Infin | To be a guest | Focus on action Jesus’ being a guest.

It was considered wicked to eat the fruit of one whose earnings were tainted.

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| 8 | σταθεὶς | Aor pass part | Had been made to stand | Jesus must have stood him up |

| 8 | εἴ | Sub conj cond | If | Assumes a real condition |

| 8 | ἐσυκοφάντησα | Aor 1S | I have cheated | As in extortion or blackmail |

| 8 | ἀποδίδωμι | Pres 1S | Pay back | Pay an owed obligation, his intention to repent makes it possible for Jesus to eat with him.

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| 9 | ἐγένετο | Aor Mid 3S | Has come | Has come to exist |

| 10 | ζητῆσαι | Aor Inf | To seek | Focus on the action |

| 10 | σῶσαι | Inf | save | Denotes purpose |

| 10 | ἀπολωλός | Perf part | Lost | Lost, as in utterly destroyed or ruined.

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!!! Contextual Material

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*Genre*

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The text is a narrative story with the rhetorical function of identification with a character unfolding to an understanding that Jesus’ true mission is to save Zacchaeus and us as well.

We move from a point of feeling we too would like to see Jesus and have him stay with us.

The relatively sparse details ask us to “fill in the gaps” of the narrative with our imaginations.

We look for ourselves in the story and see that Jesus came to save even people like us.

*The Broad Context*

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Luke’s Gospel specifically addresses Theophilus but his intentions are much broader than that.

It would have been widely circulated and Luke wrote it to strengthen the faith of all believers as well as answer the attacks of unbelievers.

It was also intended to dispel ill-founded reports about Jesus with the truth Luke had learned in his careful investigations.