Luke 14:5

5 He said to them, " Suppose your child or ox fell into a ditch on the Sabbath day. Wouldn't you immediately pull it out?"

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 Jesus asked the lawyers and Pharisees, "Does the Law allow healing on the Sabbath or not?"

4 But they said nothing. Jesus took hold of the sick man, cured him, and then let him go.

5 He said to them, "Suppose your child or ox fell into a ditch on the Sabbath day. Wouldn't you immediately pull it out?"

6 But they had no response.

7 When Jesus noticed how the guests sought out the best seats at the table, he told them a parable.