Luke 14:5

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

Luke 14:5 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 14:5

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 Matthew 12:11), (See Gill on Luke 13:15).

Luke 14:5 In-Context

3 And Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?

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 not forthwith pull him out on the sabbath?

6 And they could not answer him again to these things.

7 And he put forth a parable to those who were invited, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying to them,