Healing of a Man With Dropsy.

(Luke 14:1-6).

One Saturday, while the Lord was in the house of one of the “rulers of Pharisees,” i.e. apparently one of the Jewish leaders belonging to the Pharisee sect, or one of its prominent members, a man suffering with incurable dropsy, appeared before Him. Before curing the afflicted person, the Lord asked the Pharisees: “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” because they “watched Him closely,” i.e. waiting for an opportunity to accuse Him of something, They decided to stay silent, because while the law did not forbid this, the contrived “tradition of the elders” did. The Lord then healed him with one touch, and lectured the Pharisees about a donkey or an ox that had fallen into a pit, demonstrating clearly that good deeds can be performed on the Sabbath. It was so convincing that “they could not answer Him regarding these things.”