Luke 14: 1-5 -- SH
One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched. There in front of him was a man suffering from abnormal swelling of his body. Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?” But they remained silent. So taking hold of the man, he healed him and sent him on his way.
Then he asked them, “If one of you has a child or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out?” And they had nothing to say.
Do
you see the contrasts here? One Sabbath healing sandwiched between two
questions; both questions are met with stony silence, the air thick
with tension and even malevolence.
As
Jesus gradually comes closer to Jerusalem, the contrast between his
freely-shared shalom and anxious rigidity of the religious leaders
becomes starker and deeper, challenging us to discern what impulses beat
inside our own hearts as we walk with him to the cross.
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