Is It Lawful to Heal?

Mercy, Humility, and the Cost · Luke 14

Story guide: Jesus gently steadies a relieved man beside a low Sabbath meal table while serious guests watch. The image portrays is it lawful to heal? in Luke 14:1-6.

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1And it happened that when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him closely.

2And behold, a certain man with dropsy was before him.

3And Jesus answered and said to the lawyers and Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?”

4But they kept silent. And taking hold of him, he healed him and sent him away.

5And he said to them, “Which of you, if a son or an ox falls into a well, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?”

6And they were not able to reply to these things.

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