Luke 14:3

Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”

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Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”

BSB

So Jesus asked the experts in the law and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”

ASV

And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath, or not?

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Καὶ Kai And G2532 ἀποκριθεὶς apokritheis answering G611 ὁ ho (the) G3588 Ἰησοῦς Iēsous Jesus G2424 εἶπεν eipen spoke G2036 πρὸς pros to G4314 τοὺς tous the G3588 νομικοὺς nomikous lawyers G3544 καὶ kai and G2532 Φαρισαίους Pharisaious to [the] Pharisees G5330 λέγων legōn saying G3004 εἰ ei if G1487 ἔξεστιν exestin Is it lawful G1832 τῷ tō on the G3588 σαββάτῳ sabbatō Sabbath G4521 θεραπεῦσαι therapeusai to heal G2323 ἢ ē or G2228 οὔ; ou not G3756

The early church

When it is said that Jesus answered, there is a reference to the words which went before, And they watched him. For the Lord knew the thoughts of men.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
But by His question He exposes their folly. For while God blessed the sabbath, (Gen. 2:1.) they forbade to do good on the sabbath; but the day which does not admit the works of the good is accursed.
Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(de Quæst. Evan. lib. 2. cap. 29.) Now He has aptly compared the dropsical man to an animal which has fallen into a ditch, (for he is troubled by water,) as He compared that woman, whom He spoke of as bound, and whom He Himself loosed, to a beast which is let loose to be led to water.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
When then the man with the dropsy came into the midst of them, He rebukes by a question the insolence of the Pharisees, who wished to detect Him; as it is said, And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy. And Jesus answering, &c.
Cyril of Alexandria · d. 444Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(14 Mor. c. 6.) Rightly then is the dropsical man healed in the Pharisees' presence, for by the bodily infirmity of the one, is expressed the mental disease of the other.
Gregory the Dialogist · d. 604Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–6

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 clamour would be raised at his doing it on the sabbath. It requires care to understand the proper connexion 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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