1. One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully.
2. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy.
3. And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?”
4. But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away.
5. And he said to them, “Which of you, having a sonor an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”
6. And they could not reply to these things.
7. Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the places of honor, saying to them,
8. “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him,