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Luke 14 One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” And they could not reply to these things. Will you not respond immediately when your own family is in need? your own child? Or your own possessions threatened? Why then do we hesitate when we meet a person in need? Why then do we make excuses? The Pharisees said Jesus should not help because the Sabbath was a day of rest. But Jesus said this was hypocrisy. They would have worked to help their own child if he was in trouble. We do the same. We justify our refusals to help with various Biblical arguments. They sound good a