LUKE’s version of Jesus’s Beatitudes (or “blessings”) challenges the more famous version recorded in Matthew (5.1-11).

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more ...

The lectionary New Testament readings for the coming week, Epiphany 2 in Year C, are 1 Corinthians 12.1-11 and John 2.1-11 ... until Pentecost’, which apparently is near. From Acts 18–19, we know that ...