1 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 and Jesus answering spake to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful on the sabbath-day to heal?

4 and they were silent, and having taken hold of [him], he healed him, and let [him] go;