Sermon Tone Analysis

We all know someone who is able to take something fun and turn it into work.

This is the person who, during recess, would try to micromanage the football game by applying professional rules and stats and penalties rather than just letting you throw the ball around.

This is the person who would take a board game so seriously, it was like their entire future depended on the outcome.

18 He said therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like?

And to what shall I compare it?

19 It is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches.”

10 Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.

11 And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years.

She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself.

12 When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” 13 And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God. 14 But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days in which work ought to be done.

Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” 15 Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites!

Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it?

16 And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” 17 As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.

20 And again he said, “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? 21 It is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”

15 Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites!

Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it?

16 And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” 17 As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.

Anon, 2016.

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version, Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.

Even further contempt for Christ by not addressing him directly.

Jesus and his contemporaries lived amidst a sea of regulations that allowed for the care of livestock on the Sabbath.

Rabbinical regulations were very kind to dumb animals, assuring that they could be led out to eat and be watered (cf.

M. Shab.

5:1–4; 7:2; 15:1–2; and M. Erub.

2:1–4).

Hughes, R.K., 1998.

Luke: that you may know the truth, Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books.

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