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Jesus Confronts
Jesus does not confront simply to be argumentative … but rather to lead to truth
Our Religious Hypocrisy - 14:1-6
Note Text -
14:1 The miracle’s setting is described simply: a leader of the Pharisees has Jesus over for a meal.
Luke’s general terminology makes it impossible to be specific as to the leader’s exact position: he might have been a synagogue official, a synagogue head (8:41), or a higher official, a “chief priest.”
The host is a prominent official.
The meal is probably the midday meal, since bread is the main course
A Sabbath meal was prepared the day before to avoid breaking the Sabbath
This type of meal is important to Luke because it shows that Jesus had table fellowship with the Pharisees and that he had their attention
Bock, D. L. (1996).
(Vol.
2, pp.
1255–1256).
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.
They … Pharisees
Watching Him carefully - Word has idea of “watch lurkingly”
cp.
Question on their minds: “What is he going to do this time?”
Dropsy = old-fashioned or less technical term for edema.
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Word = Greek - Hydropikos - Hydro = Water or Fluid; and Pikos - To Appear - Niv very good here - “He was suffering from abnormal swelling of his body”
Luke explains why the Pharisees are curious.
Sitting with them at the meal is a man with dropsy (ὑδρωπικός, hydrōpikos; a hapax legomenon), also called hydrops after its Greek name (Van Der Loos 1965: 507).
Its symptoms are swollen limbs and tissue resulting from excess body fluids.
Technically, dropsy is not a disease, but indicates that another medical problem is present.
Dropsy was discussed in ancient Jewish material as well as in the OT (Lev.
15:1–12; SB 2:203).6
Some rabbis argued that dropsy resulted from sexual offenses (b.
Šab.
33a) or from intentionally failing to have bowel movements (b.
Ber.
25a) (for Greek examples, see Van Der Loos 1965: 506).
The tradition is late, but it does show that dropsy was often viewed as God’s judgment, either for sin or uncleanness.
Luke also tells us that there was a man there with dropsy.
It was not unusual for Jesus to meet someone with a medical condition, and this man’s condition was serious.
Dropsy, or edema, is characterized by the buildup of excess fluid in the cavities or tissues of the body.
The man was swollen by the retention of water, possibly indicating that his organs were failing.
This was the first thing Jesus noticed when he went into the Pharisee’s house: a man in serious need.
It is the first thing Jesus notices about all of us: the needs we have that only he can supply.
Was Jesus baiting them??? Or calling out their hypocrisy?
No doubt they have an opinion … but no one answers!
No doubt they remembered
I think they knew his answer!
They were speechless
Unlike the Pharisees, Jesus understood the real purpose of the Sabbath.
It was not a day for trying to catch people making a moral mistake, or to gain spiritual merit by keeping laws that were even stricter than the law of God.
But it was a day for worship and rest, and also for showing mercy to people in need.
As J. C. Ryle explained it, “The Sabbath was made for man—for his benefit, not for his injury—for his advantage, not for his hurt.
The interpretation of God’s law respecting the Sabbath was never intended to be strained so far as to interfere with charity, kindness, and the real wants of human nature.”
Unlike the Pharisees, Jesus understood the real purpose of the Sabbath.
It was not a day for trying to catch people making a moral mistake, or to gain spiritual merit by keeping laws that were even stricter than the law of God.
But it was a day for worship and rest, and also for showing mercy to people in need.
As J. C. Ryle explained it, “The Sabbath was made for man—for his benefit, not for his injury—for his advantage, not for his hurt.
The interpretation of God’s law respecting the Sabbath was never intended to be strained so far as to interfere with charity, kindness, and the real wants of human nature.”
Ryken, P. G. (2009).
Luke.
(R. D. Phillips, P. G. Ryken, & D. M. Doriani, Eds.) (Vol.
2, p. 66).
Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing.
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