Luke 14 · Verse 3

Luke 14:3

And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
Luke 14:3, King James Version

Luke 14:3 in other translations

BSBSo Jesus asked the experts in the law and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”
WEBJesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”
ASVAnd Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath, or not?
YLTand Jesus answering spake to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, ‘Is it lawful on the sabbath-day to heal?'
DARBYAnd Jesus answering spoke unto the doctors of the law and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?
BBEAnd Jesus, answering, said to the scribes and Pharisees, Is it right to make people well on the Sabbath or not?
WebsterAnd Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?

What does Luke 14:3 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 14:3-6
3-6. (See on Mt 12:11, 12).

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Barnes' Notes
Verse 3. Jesus, answering. To answer, in the Scriptures, does not always imply, as among us, that anything had been said before. It means often merely to begin or to take up a subject, or, as here, to remark on the case that was present.

Is it lawful, &c. He knew that they were watching him. If he healed the man at once, they would accuse him. He therefore proposed the question to them, and when it was asked, they could not say that it was not lawful.

(b) "Is it lawful" Lk 13:14

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 14:1-6

The necessity of consideration and self-denial. (25-35) Verses 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…

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Luke 14:3 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ΚαὶKaiAndG2532
ἀποκριθεὶςapokritheisansweringG611
ὁho<the>G3588
ἸησοῦςIēsousJesusG2424
εἶπενeipenspokeG2036
πρὸςprostoG4314
τοὺςtoustheG3588
νομικοὺςnomikouslawyersG3544
καὶkaiandG2532
ΦαρισαίουςPharisaiousto [the] PhariseesG5330
λέγων·legōnsaying;G3004
ἔξεστινexestinIs it lawfulG1832
τῷtōon theG3588
σαββάτῳsabbatōSabbathG4521
θεραπεῦσαιtherapeusaito healG2323
ἢēorG2228
οὔ;ounot?G3756

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Luke 14:3

  • Luke 6:9

    Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?

  • Matthew 12:10

    And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.

  • Mark 3:4

    And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.

  • Luke 13:14-16

    And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day. The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

  • John 7:23

    If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?

  • Matthew 12:2

    But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.

  • Luke 11:44-45

    Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them. Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.

  • Matthew 22:35

    Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the lawyers.
11:44,45
Is.
6:9; 13:14-16; Mt 12:10; Mr 3:4; Joh 7:23

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Context

  • Luke 14:2

    And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.

  • Luke 14:3

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

  • Luke 14:4

    And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;

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Luke 14:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y respondiendo Jesús, habló á los doctores de la ley y á los Fariseos, diciendo: ¿Es lícito sanar en sábado?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Jésus, répondant, parla aux docteurs de la loi et aux pharisiens, disant: Est-il permis de guérir, un jour de sabbat?
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und Jesus hob an und sprach zu den Gesetzgelehrten und Pharisäern und sagte: Ist es erlaubt, am Sabbath zu heilen?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et respondens Jesus dixit ad legisperitos et pharisæos, dicens: Si licet sabbato curare?