And Jesus answering spoke unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying,
Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Is it lawful? Jesus knew their thoughts, and that they would blame him as a sabbath-breaker: yet he healed the man, and confounded them by the example and common practice of pulling an ass out of a pit on the sabbath-day. (Witham)