One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” And they could not reply to these things. (Luke 14:1-6 ESV)
Since the leader of the synagogue had told the peole to NOT come there on the Sabbath to be healed, Jesus stopped going there. But the people came whereever He was, and he healed them there. In His continuing ministry of show and tell, He again repeats his resounding message: not only is it right to heal on the sabbath, it would be wrong not to. How much does He need to repeat to us the same message over and over again? Rather than confess He is right, we remain silent in word and action.
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