Luke 13:15

Hypocrites, does not each one of you, on the sabbath, loose his ox or his ass from the stable, and lead him away, and give him water?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?

In Context

14But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had performed a cure on the sabbath-day, answered and said to the multitude: There are six days in which work ought to be done; on these, therefore, come and be cured, and not on the sabbath-day. Then the Lord answered him and said:

16And ought not this woman, who is a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, lo, these eighteen years, to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath-day?

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Cross References

Matthew 7:5Hypocrite! first pull the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to pull the splinter out of your brother’s eye.

Matthew 15:14Let them alone; they are blind leaders of the blind; and if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the pit.

Matthew 23:28So also you outwardly appear to men to be just, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Luke 12:1In the mean time, when myriads of the people had come together, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples first of all: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

John 7:21Jesus answered and said to them: I have done one work, and you are all astonished on account of this.

Matthew Henry on Luke 13:11-18

The Infirm Woman Healed. 10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. 11 And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. 12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. 13 And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. 14 And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus… Read the whole commentary →

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