Luke 14:3 Parallel Translations
NASB: And Jesus answered and spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?" (NASB ©1995)
GWT: Jesus reacted by asking the Pharisees and the experts in Moses' Teachings, "Is it right to heal on the day of worship or not?"(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
ASV: And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath, or not?
BBE: And Jesus, answering, said to the scribes and Pharisees, Is it right to make people well on the Sabbath or not?
DBY: And Jesus answering spoke unto the doctors of the law and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?
ERV: And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath, or not?
WEY: This led Jesus to ask the lawyers and Pharisees, "Is it allowable to cure people on the Sabbath?"
WBS: And Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?
WEB: Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"
YLT: and Jesus answering spake to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, 'Is it lawful on the sabbath-day to heal?'
Luke 14:3 Cross References
XREF:Matthew 12:2 But when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, "Look, Your disciples do what is not lawful to do on a Sabbath."

Matthew 22:35 One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him,

Luke 13:14 But the synagogue official, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, began saying to the crowd in response, "There are six days in which work should be done; so come during them and get healed, and not on the Sabbath day." (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
PNT: 14:3 Is it lawful? Conscious that they were watching him, he asked them a question which they declined to answer. The tradition said it was unlawful.
WES: 14:3 And Jesus answering, spake - Answering the thoughts which he saw rising in their hearts.
MHC: 14:1-6 This Pharisee, as well as others, seems to have had an ill design in entertaining Jesus at his house. But our Lord would not be hindered from healing a man, though he knew a clamour would be raised at his doing it on the sabbath. It requires care to understand the proper connexion between piety and charity in observing the sabbath, and the distinction between works of real necessity and habits of self-indulgence. Wisdom from above, teaches patient perseverance in well-doing.
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