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, as he went into the house of one of the rulers, [who was] of the Pharisees, to eat bread on [the] sabbath, that they were watching him. 2And behold, there was a certain dropsical [man] before him. And Jesus answering spoke unto the doctors of the law and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath? 4But they were silent. And taking him he healed him and let him go. 5And answering he said to them, Of which of you shall an ass or ox fall into a well, that he does not straightway pull him up on the 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
• spokeλέγωlegō · to sayG3004
• 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 sepulchres which appear not, and the men walking over them do not know [it].
• Luke 6:9Jesus therefore said to them, I will ask you if it is lawful on the sabbath to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy [it]?
• Luke 13:14But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus healed on the sabbath, answering said to the crowd, There are six days in which [people] ought to work; in these therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
• Matthew 12:10And behold, there was a man having his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath? that they might accuse him.
• Mark 3:4And he says to them, Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill? But they were silent.
• John 7:23If a man receives circumcision on sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be violated, are ye angry with me because I have made a man entirely sound on 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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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