1And it came to pass, on his going into the house of a certain one of the chiefs of the Pharisees, on a sabbath, to eat bread, that they were watching him,
2and lo, there was a certain dropsical man before him;
3and Jesus answering spake to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, `Is it lawful on the sabbath-day to heal?`
4and they were silent, and having taken hold of [him], he healed him, and let [him] go;
5and answering them he said, `Of which of you shall an ass or ox fall into a pit, and he will not immediately draw it up on the sabbath-day?`
6and they were not able to answer him again unto these things.
7And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them,
