Luke 14:5

5 Then he said to them, "If any one of you had a child or an ox that happened to fall in a well on a Sabbath, would you not pull it out at once on the Sabbath itself?" ¹

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 spoke up and asked the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees, "Does our Law allow healing on the Sabbath or not?"

4 But they would not say a thing. Jesus took the man, healed him, and sent him away.

5 Then he said to them, "If any one of you had a child or an ox that happened to fall in a well on a Sabbath, would you not pull it out at once on the Sabbath itself?"

6 But they were not able to answer him about this.

7 Jesus noticed how some of the guests were choosing the best places, so he told this parable to all of them:

Cross References

• 1. 14.5Matthew 12.11.