Luke 14:1-6
One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. 2 And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. 3 And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” 4 But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. 5 And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son[a] or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” 6 And they could not reply to these things.
The problem with religious legalism is not difficult to understand. One modern example would be breaking a car window to save a pet on hot summer’s day. Another example is trespassing on someone’s property to save someone from a fire. Anyway, it’s easy to see why there are reasons to break just laws. That was what Jesus was saying in the above paragraph.
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