6th Sunday in ordinary Time -A – Mt 5, 17-37

I think many of us have heard the following story:
It is about a criminal who was sentenced to death
but was set free by a mistake in the punctuation.
The story goes so: Finding the man a criminal, the judge gave the verdict, “Hang him, not leave him.”
But the staff typed the judgement thus:
“Hang him not. Leave him.”
Thus the criminal was set free.
See, a small misplace of a comma can change things radically.
The story tells us that.

In the Gospel we hear a sentence from Jesus.:
“Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will ....

--Thomas Kalathil6th Sunday in ordinary Time -A – Mt 5, 17-37