One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. 2 And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. 3 And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” 4 But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. 5 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?” 6 And they could not reply to these things.
In one sense, this seems like the same story we have seen before: Jesus gets invited to dinner at the house of a Pharisee, which was simply a ploy to watch Him more closely to see if He did or said something that they could charge Him with. One thing we find different here is that Jesus takes the offensive: asking them before He heals the man if it was okay. Crickets. Jesus had a way of stopping a party in its tracks. He then asks why they would think it was wrong to heal on the Sabbath if they were willing to do something similar for an animal. Again, crickets. Something was wrong with their priorities, and they were too proud to admit it. What misplaced priorities do you have in your live today? Are you responding with repentance or silence?
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