Healing a Man with Dropsy
Mercy confronts silence at a Pharisee's table.
Invited to a leader's house, Jesus heals a man with dropsy and presses a simple question about Sabbath compassion. Silence becomes its own verdict.
Scripture
1 It happened, 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.
2 Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.
3 Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"
4 But they were silent. He took him, and healed him, and let him go.
5 He answered them, "Which of you, if your son or an ox fell into a well, wouldn't immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?"
6 They couldn't answer him regarding these things.