Luke 14:1-6<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
The question that Jesus poses to the Pharisees isn\u2019t, strictly speaking, a trick one.<\/p>\n
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But they decline to answer it because they realize that any answer they\u2019re likely to give will be problematic.<\/p>\n
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If they says that it\u2019s 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\u2019t want to do that. \u00a0After 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.<\/p>\n
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But they also don\u2019t want to seem to endorse the cures that Jesus has been doing.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s hard work being a Pharisee.<\/p>\n
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Posted from Logan, Utah<\/p>\n
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