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15 Then the Lord answered him,[a] “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from its stall,[b] and lead it to water?[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 13:15 tn Grk “answered him and said.” This is redundant in contemporary English and has been shortened to “answered him.”
  2. Luke 13:15 tn Grk “from the manger [feeding trough],” but by metonymy of part for whole this can be rendered “stall.”
  3. Luke 13:15 sn The charge here is hypocrisy, but it is only part one of the response. Various ancient laws detail what was allowed with cattle; see Mishnah, m. Shabbat 5; CD 11:5-6.