Luke 14:1

Jesus dines at a Pharisee leader's house on the Sabbath while they watch Him closely. He enters hostile scrutiny with characteristic boldness.

Cross-references · 16

• Mark 3:2They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.
• Ps 41:6If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
• Prov 23:7for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
• Luke 20:20They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
• Ps 62:4They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
• Luke 6:7The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.
• Ps 64:5–6They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”
• Luke 11:37Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.
• Isa 29:20–21For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off —
• Jer 20:10–11For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.”
• Luke 11:53–54As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;
• Ps 37:32The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
• 1 Cor 9:19–22For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
• Acts 5:34But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.
• John 3:1Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
• Luke 7:34–36The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

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