Of Suffering and the Law

Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod , owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.

Oh, those silly learned people of Jesus’s time.

In today’s Gospel reading from Luke 14, a man is suffering, possibly due to swelling in his legs and feet that could be a sign of congestive heart failure. But it’s the Sabbath, and you know what that means: as far as the scholars and Pharisees are concerned, he’ll just have to wait. Healing just isn’t done on the Sabb...