^{1 Ref} And 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,

² and lo, there was a certain dropsical man before him;

^{3 Ref} and Jesus answering spake to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, `Is it lawful on the sabbath-day to heal?'

^{4 Ref} and they were silent, and having taken hold of `him', he healed him, and let `him' go;

^{5 Ref} and 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?'

^{6 Ref} and they were not able to answer him again unto these things.