Words of Jesus: Thursday, April 30, 2026

Thursday April 30, 2026

Luke 14:1-6   “One sabbath when he went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they were watching him. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. And Jesus spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath, or not?” But they were silent. Then he took him and healed him, and let him go. And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well, will not immediately pull him out on a sabbath day?” And they could not reply to this.”

 RSV

The issue that the religious leaders had against healing on the Sabbath is repeated multiple times in the Gospels.  They added hundreds of laws and rules to those that were written down by Moses.  It was an oppressive way of controlling the people.  They tried to control Jesus, with their extra rules and laws, but Jesus called them out on their errors, hypocrisy, and their evil motives.