James Tissot (d. 1902)
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The question that Jesus poses to the Pharisees isn’t, strictly speaking, a trick one.
But they decline to answer it because they realize that any answer they’re likely to give will be problematic.
If they says that it’s illegal to heal or save people on the Sabbath, that will seem to suggest a prohibition on doing good on the Sabbath day, and they don’t want to do that. After all, as Jesus implicitly says, they would find it perfectly right to pull a son from a well if he had fallen in on the Sabbath.
But they also don’t want to seem to endorse the cures that Jesus has been doing.
It’s hard work being a Pharisee.
Posted from Logan, Utah
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