And answered them, saying,.... Murmuring secretly at what he had done:which of you shall have an ass, or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day? being just ready to be drowned there; and therefore it must be much more right and necessary to cure a man, a reasonable creature, just drowning with a dropsy, as this man was.
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Luke 14:5
Luke 14:5
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