Luke 14:3 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 14:3

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

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ASV

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

KJV

And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And Jesus answering, spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees,.... All the Oriental versions, for "lawyers", read "Scribes": these, with the Pharisees, were got together in a body, in their brother Pharisee's house, to watch the motions of Christ; who knew their designs upon him, and the thoughts of their hearts, and made answer to them, by putting the following question; saying, is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Jesus, answering - To “answer,” in the Scriptures, does not always imply, as among us, that anything had been said before. It means often merely to “begin” or to take up a subject, or, as here, to remark on the case that was present. Is it lawful ... - He knew that they were watching him. If he healed the man at once, they would accuse him. He, therefore, proposed the question to them, and when it was asked, they could not say that it was not lawful.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

Let us first mark in this passage — how our Lord Jesus Christ accepted the hospitality of those who were not His disciples. We read that "He went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread." We cannot reasonably suppose that this Pharisee was a friend of Christ. It is more probable that he only did what was customary for a man in his position. He saw a stranger teaching religion, whom some regarded as a prophet, and he invited Him to eat at his table.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
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 →
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 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Mark 3:4
And He asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?” But they were silent.
leads to
- Luke 6:9
  Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?”
- Matthew 12:10–12
  and a man with a withered hand was there. In order to accuse Jesus, they asked Him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”
Through
Matthew 12:10
and a man with a withered hand was there. In order to accuse Jesus, they asked Him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”
leads to
- Luke 13:14
  But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on…
- John 9:16
  Because of this, some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there…
- John 8:6
  They said this to test Him, in order to have a basis for accusing Him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with His finger.
- John 5:10
  so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It is unlawful for you to carry your mat.”
- Matthew 22:17–18
  So tell us what You think: Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
Through
John 7:23
If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?
leads to
- John 5:14–16
  Afterward, Jesus found the man at the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.”

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