LUKE 11:50 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;”
Jesus heals the bent-over woman on the Sabbath, placing his hands on her after calling her forward, and she straightens up and praises God. The synagogue ruler's objection — there are six days for work, come on those days and be healed, not on the Sabbath — receives the livestock analogy: you untie your ox or donkey and lead it to water on the Sabbath; should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham bound by Satan for eighteen years, be untied on the Sabbath?
Church Fathers on Luke 11:50
A reproof which exalts the meek is generally hateful to the proud man. When therefore our Savior was blaming the Pharisees for transgressing from the right path, the body of Lawyers were struck with consternation. Hence it is said, Then answered one of the lawyers, and said to him, Master, thus saying you reproach us also.
In what a grievous state is that conscience, which hearing the word of God thinks it a reproach against itself, and in the account of the punishment of the wicked perceives its own condemnation.
Now the Lawyers were different from the Pharisees. For the Pharisees being separated from the rest had the appearance of a religious sect; but those skilled in the Law were the Scribes and Doctors who solved legal questions.
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