Luke 14:3
This led Jesus to ask the lawyers and Pharisees, "Is it allowable to cure people on the Sabbath?"
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
2In front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.
4They gave Him no answer; so He took hold of the man, cured him, and sent him away.
Cross References
Matthew 12:2But the Pharisees saw it and said to Him, "Look! your disciples are doing what the Law forbids them to do on the Sabbath."
Matthew 22:35and one of them, an expounder of the Law, asked Him as a test question,
Luke 6:9Then Jesus said to them, "I put it to you all whether we are allowed to do good on the Sabbath, or to do evil; to save a life, or to destroy it."
Luke 13:14Then the Warden of the Synagogue, indignant that Jesus had cured her on a Sabbath, said to the crowd, "There are six days in the week on which people ought to work. On those days therefore come and get yourselves cured, and not on the Sabbath day."
Matthew Henry on Luke 14:2-7
A Man Cured of the Dropsy. 1 And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. 2 And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy. 3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? 4 And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go; 5 And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will… Read the whole commentary →