Luke 14:1-6
Chapter 14
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One Sabbath, Jesus went to eat at the house of a leading Pharisee, and he was carefully watched.
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In front of him was a man suffering from dropsy;
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so Jesus asked the teachers of the law and the Pharisees:
“Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?”
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But no one answered.
Jesus then took the man, healed him, and sent him away.
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And he said to them:
“If your lamb or your ox falls into a well on a Sabbath day, who among you doesn’t hurry to pull it out?”
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And they could not answer.
Commentaries
Heals a Man With Dropsy.
With this new sign of healing on the Sabbath, Jesus condemns the mistaken and self-serving way of understanding the Sabbath commandment and, more broadly, the Law. Elsewhere in Galilee, Jesus had already proclaimed his lordship over the Sabbath; in this region on the way to Jerusalem, it is also confirmed that he is Lord of life and also of the Sabbath.