Luke 14:5 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 14:5

And He asked them, “Which of you whose son or ox falls into a pit on the Sabbath day will not immediately pull him out?”

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ASV

And he said unto them, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a well, and will not straightway draw him up on a sabbath day?

KJV

And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?

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Commentary

4 voices

Cyril of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 101 (444)

As they were silent from ill will, Christ refutes their unrelenting shamelessness by the convincing arguments that he uses. "Whose son of you," he says, "or whose ox shall fall into a pit, and he will not immediately draw him out on the sabbath day?" If the law forbids showing mercy on the sabbath, why do you take compassion on that which has fallen into the pit?… The God of all does not cease to be kind. He is good and loving to people.

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And answered them, saying,.... Murmuring secretly at what he had done: which of you shall have an ass, or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day? being just ready to be drowned there; and therefore it must be much more right and necessary to cure a man, a reasonable creature, just drowning with a dropsy, as this man was. The Syriac and Persic versions, instead of "an ass", read "a son", very wrongly: a like kind of reasoning is used by Christ, in See Gill on Mat 12:11, Luk 13:15.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Now this was an evidence of their hypocrisy, and that it was not out of any real regard to the sabbath that they found fault with Christ for healing on the sabbath day (that was only the pretence), but really because they were angry at the miraculous good works which Christ wrought, and the proof he thereby gave of his divine mission, and the interest he thereby gained among the people.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

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

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Καὶ	Kai	And	G2532 →
πρὸς	pros	to	G4314 →
αὐτοὺς	autous	them	G846 →
εἶπεν·	eipen	He said;	G2036 →
τίνος	tinos	Which	G5101 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	of you	G4771 →
υἱὸς	huios	a son	G5207 →
ἢ	ē	or	G2228 →
βοῦς	bous	an ox	G1016 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
φρέαρ	phrear	a pit	G5421 →
πεσεῖται,	peseitai	will collapse,	G4098 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
οὐκ	ouk	surely	G3756 →
εὐθέως	eutheōs	immediately	G2112 →
ἀνασπάσει	anaspasei	he will pull up	G385 →
αὐτὸν	auton	him	G846 →
ἐν	en	on	G1722 →
ἡμέρᾳ	hēmera	day	G2250 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
σαββάτου;	sabbatou	Sabbath?	G4521 →

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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Daniel 4:24
This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree that the Most High has issued against my lord the king:
leads to
- Psalms 107:40
  He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
- Job 40:11–12
  Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.
- Isaiah 46:10–11
  I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
- Psalms 148:6
  He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.
- Isaiah 23:9
  The LORD of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.
Through
Luke 13:15
“You hypocrites!” the Lord replied. “Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it to water?
leads to
- John 7:21–24
  Jesus answered them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed.
- Acts 13:9–10
  Then Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked directly at Elymas
- Luke 6:42
  How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of…

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Luke

Where the connections lead

The record, by era

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Luke