Luke 14:3

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“So Jesus asked the experts in the law and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?””

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BSBPD

“So Jesus asked the experts in the law and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath, or not?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and Jesus answering spake to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, `Is it lawful on the sabbath-day to heal?'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Luke 14:3 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Matthew 12:2When the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”
  2. Matthew 12:10and a man with a withered hand was there. In order to accuse Jesus, they asked Him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”
  3. Matthew 22:35One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question:
  4. Mark 3:4And He asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?” But they were silent.
  5. Luke 6:9Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?”
  6. Luke 11:44Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”
  7. Luke 13:14But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath.”
  8. John 7:23If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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