1 One Sabbath Jesus went to eat a meal at the home of one of the leading Pharisees; and people were watching Jesus closely.
2 A man whose legs and arms were swollen came to Jesus,
3 and Jesus asked the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees, “Does our Law allow healing on the Sabbath or not?”
4 But they would not say anything. Jesus took the man, healed him, and sent him away.
5 Then he said to them, “If any one of you had a son or an ox that happened to fall in a well on a Sabbath, would you not pull them out at once on the Sabbath itself?”
6 But they were not able to answer him about this.
7 Jesus noticed how some of the guests were choosing the best places, so he told this parable to all of them: