5And answered them, saying, 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?
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The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. …
And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)In this passage of story we find, I. That the Son of man came eating and drinking , conversing familiarly with all sorts of people; not declining the society of publicans, though they were of ill fame , nor of Pharisees, though they bore him ill will , but accepting the friendly invitations both of the one and the other, that, if possible, he might do good to both . Here he went into the house of…
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