Luke 13:14

ruler of the synagogue See Luke 8:41.

with indignation The same strong word implying a personal resentment is used in Matthew 20:24; Matthew 26:8.

on the sabbath day See on Luke 6:2.

in which men ought to work Exodus 20:9.

in them therefore come and be healed As though the reception of divine grace were Sabbath-breaking toil! Few remarks of the opponents of our Lord were so transparently illogical and hypocritical as this. It was meanly indirect because it was aimed atJesus, though the man is too much in awe to address it to Him, and the implied notion that it was a crime to allow oneself to be healedon the Sabbath day springs from an abyss of Pharisaic falsity which could hardly have been conceived. It was the underhand ignorance and insolence, as well as the gross insincerity of the remark, which called forth a reproof exceptionally severe.