Luke 14:3

Luke 14:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
• New International Version (NIV)Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”
• English Standard Version (ESV)And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?"
• New King James Version (NKJV)And Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”

Context of Luke 14:3

1And it came to pass, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him. 2And behold, there was before him a certain man that had the dropsy. And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath, or not? 4But they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go. 5And he said unto them, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a well, and will not straightway draw him up on a sabbath day?

Luke 14:3 word by word

Καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν πρὸς τοὺς νομικοὺς καὶ Φαρισαίους λέγων· ἔξεστιν τῷ σαββάτῳ θεραπεῦσαι ἢ οὔ;Read the interlinear

• JesusἸησοῦςIēsous · JesusG2424
• answeringἀποκρίνωapokrinomai · to answerG611
• lawyersνομικόςnomikos · lawyerG3544
• PhariseesΦαρισαῖοςPharisaios · PhariseeG5330
• sayingλέγωlegō · to sayG3004
• lawfulἔξεστι, ἐξόνexesti · be permittedG1832
• healθεραπεύωtherapeuō · to serve/healG2323
• sabbathσάββατονsabbaton · SabbathG4521

Cross-references for Luke 14:3

• Luke 11:44Woe unto you! for ye are as the tombs which appear not, and the men that walk over them know it not.
• Luke 6:9And Jesus said unto them, I ask you, Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good, or to do harm? to save a life, or to destroy it?
• Luke 13:14And the ruler of the synagogue, being moved with indignation because Jesus had healed on the sabbath, answered and said to the multitude, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the day of the sabbath.
• Matthew 12:10and behold, a man having a withered hand. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? that they might accuse him.
• Mark 3:4And he saith unto them, Is it lawful on the sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? to save a life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
• John 7:23If a man receiveth circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye wroth with me, because I made a man every whit whole on the sabbath?

Commentaries on Luke 14:3

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Jesus, answering - To “answer,” in the Scriptures, does not always imply, as among us, that anything had been said before. It means often merely to “begin” or to take up a subject, or, as here, to remark on the case that was present. Is it lawful … - He knew that they were watching him. If he healed the man at once, they would accuse him. He, therefore, proposed the question to them, and when it was asked, they could not say that it was not lawful.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?: The Jewish rabbis (religious teachers with authority) debated this question (see study note on 6:6–7).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-63-6. (See on Mt 12:11, 12).Read the comment

Topics related to Luke 14:3

• Jesus, the Christ
• Miracles
• Sabbath

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• Exalt
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Commentaries on Luke 14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings