“From the person who takes your cloak, do not withhold even your tunic,” Jesus says in our Gospel today. In Jesus’ time, if you owed someone money but could not pay your loan yet, you could give your cloak as collateral. But this cloak should be returned to you at sunset so that you would not be cold during the night. In the morning, the person you borrowed from can collect the cloak again and hold on to it for the day. But Jesus shocks us again, “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?

Source: Philippine Star February 23, 2019 16:00 UTC