The author discusses the set of tools suitable for an appropriate analysis within the study of functional sentence perspective (FSP): apart from the three basic factors that operate on the level of a clause (linear modification, semantics and context), it is also the role of the functional pressure of the dynamic-semantic layers and the role of other translations are significant in FSP analysis. The paper then focuses on the notion of the immediately relevant context and the question of retrievability, suggesting possible solution to the problem of unequivocal cases of functional interpretation. The principles of such FSP analysis are illustrated on the material of New Testament texts.