Hi everyone. Welcome back to Daily Gospel Exegesis, where we have a go at doing a verse-by-verse

exegesis of the gospel reading from today's Mass. So our goal here is to help you understand the

literal sense of scripture. So when you go to Mass and you hear this gospel reading, you have a

really firm grasp of what it means in its original context, how we can understand it on the literal

sense. So then you can build some additional meanings in there through the homily and things like that.

But we always want to start with the literal sense.

We're currently moving through the Gospel of Luke, and today we get to Luke chapter 14,

verses 1 to 6.

Now, on a Sabbath day, Jesus had gone for a meal to the house of one of the leading Pharisees, and they watched

him closely. There in front of him was a man with dropsy, and Jesus addressed the lawyers and the

Pharisees. Is it against the law, he asked, to cure a man on the Sabbath, or not? But they remained

silent, so he took the man and cured him

and sent him away. Then he said to them, which of you hear if his son falls into a well or his ox

will not pull him out on the Sabbath day without hesitation? And to this they could find no answer. So that's the end of

today's reading today. It's a fairly short one. And there's elements of this which will sound

quite familiar to you. So Jesus is in the house of a Pharisee, which has already happened a couple

of times in Luke and he's talking about healing on the Sabbath, which has happened several

times in Luke already. Let's start by thinking about what's happened just before this. So

Luke chapter 14, we're in the middle section of Luke where Jesus is moving from Galilee to Jerusalem

for the final phase of his ministry. He's speaking to the crowds along the way.

Now, he's just been speaking in a synagogue somewhere on the road,

and he's healed a crippled man on the Sabbath.

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