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Is It Right to Heal on the Sabbath?

14 On a Sabbath day, Jesus went to the home of a leading Pharisee to eat with him. The people there were all watching Jesus very closely. A man with dropsy[a] was brought before Jesus. Jesus said to the Pharisees and teachers of the law, “Is it right or wrong to heal on the Sabbath day?”

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Footnotes

  1. 14:2 dropsy A sickness that causes the body to swell larger and larger.

Jesus at a Pharisee’s House(A)

14 One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee,(B) he was being carefully watched.(C) There in front of him was a man suffering from abnormal swelling of his body. Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law,(D) “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”(E)

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