Luke 14:3

And Jesus answering, spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees,.... All the Oriental versions, for "lawyers", read "Scribes": these, with the Pharisees, were got together in a body, in their brother…

Jesus, answering - To “answer,” in the Scriptures, does not always imply, as among us, that anything had been said before. It means often merely to “begin” or to take up a subject, or, as here, to…

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,…

answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees See on Luk 5:22. He took the initiative, and answered their unspoken thoughts.

Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? We have already seen (Luk 6:1-11;…