“Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?”
The synagogue leader's indignation — there are six days for work; come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath — reveals the religious establishment's inversion of the Sabbath's purpose. The Sabbath was given as rest from the bondage of Egypt; healing the bent-over woman is the Sabbath's fulfillment, not its violation. Jesus' livestock analogy makes the point with devastating simplicity.
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