A Sabbath Controversy
14 One Sabbath, when he went in to eat [Lit eat bread] at the house of one of the leading Pharisees, they were watching him closely.
2 There in front of him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid.
3 In response, Jesus asked the law experts and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”
4 But they kept silent. He took the man, healed him, and sent him away.
5 And to them, he said, “Which of you whose son or ox falls into a well, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?”
6 They could find no answer to these things.
Commentary
(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary, 1706 -- www.christianity.com)
"This Pharisee, as well as others, seems to have had an ill design in entertaining Jesus at his house. But our Lord would not be hindered from healing a man, though he knew a clamor would be raised at his doing it on the sabbath.
It requires care to understand the proper connection between piety and charity in observing the sabbath, and the distinction between works of real necessity and habits of self-indulgence. Wisdom from above, teaches patient perseverance in well-doing."
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