And 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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Gill's Exposition
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…
See the notes at Mat 12:11. Which of you ... - In this way Jesus refuted the notion of the Pharisees. If it was lawful to save an ox on the Sabbath, it was also to save the life of a man. To this the…
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,…
Cambridge Bible
an ass or an ox The unquestionable reading if we are to follow the MSS. is -a sonor an ox." The strangeness of the collocation (which however may be taken to imply -a son nay even an ox") has led to…