The fulfillment of the Law is Love

Motivate believers to find time for God on Sunday
Today’s Gospel tells us how Jesus accepted the invitation to the house
of some leading Pharisees. Jesus accepted an invitation to the house of the Pharisee. He did not shy away from anyone and knew how to get each Pharisee. Thus, he showed his feeling and kindness to man. Suddenly, however, among the present appeared a sick man. Whether he was invited as a guest or came himself, the Gospel does not speak of it. He had a water lily, which was a sign of difficulty with heart and kidney disease. The Gospel says that the Pharisees and scribes present
watched Jesus the whole time he came, what he would say and do. Especially now, they sharpened their attention when a sick man came. Indeed, many surprised the thought, “It’s Saturday, maybe it will heal him.” Jesus seemed to know what they think in their hearts and asked them, “Free to heal on the Sabbath, is it not?” (Luke 14: 3)

There were differing views among the Jews on this question. Generally, it was thought that healing was not allowed on Saturdays if it was not possible about the danger of death. The Pharisees present also held this view, but it is perhaps embarrassing to say it out loud in this very situation. Maybe that is why it is said: “But they were silent” (Lk 14: 4a). Strict Pharisees forbade the rescue on Saturday of an animal that fell into a tank or well. They were only allowed to feed him and wait for the end of Saturday, that is, at six o’clock in the evening. Milder Pharisees allowed the animal to save now.1 Jesus said to them, “If any of you fall into a well son or ox, will he not pull it out immediately on the Sabbath?” (Lk 14: 5)
In this question, Jesus agreed that if something like this happens, it may be an animal to save. And if that happens to a person, no one doubts that he needs to be held, all the more so. All the more so when it’s your child. And a sick person needs to refuse rescue? But they could not answer him (cf. Lk 14: 6). Jesus gave them a clear answer by taking the sick man, “he healed him and released” (Lk 14: 4b).
Jesus had previously asked, “If any of you have a son fall into a well …” I mean, if your son falls into the well. God accepted us as His children. We have become God’s sons and daughters out of his love. And so, God reveals that He cares for every person. He is figuratively restless of his sons. Or daughters will fall into the well. And therefore, he comes to pull him out of it because he loves it very much. In this case, it hurts a person out of the well by healing him. He doesn’t care that it’s Saturday, and it is a sacred time in which such things must not be done.
The Pharisees forbade healing on the Sabbath day. And so, they caused the man here was for Saturday and not Saturday for man. Even worse. They caused God here on Saturday was not for the man.
And suddenly, Jesus comes here and gives a clear answer. Sense and the fulfillment of the law is love. Therefore, he healed a man on the Sabbath. He not only healed him as a sign to answer the Pharisees. He healed a man as a sign of that God has now come among His people. And she’s especially with him on Saturday. At a time that it belongs primarily to God. God himself wanted to be with a man. Proof of this is that Jesus healed the man. That was a sign to show that God was between us. The one that is expected has already arrived. It’s Jesus. But he was in the body as man, which was an obstacle for the Pharisees to believe in him as in God Son. He was, so he could afford to interpret the law “in his own way.”
Therefore, he could heal a man even on the Sabbath because he was a giver of this Sabbath. Saturday it thus becomes a sign, the day of the Lord, the day of God’s mercy. The Jews celebrated the Lord’s Day on the Sabbath, the seventh day of the week. After the resurrection, Jesus became for us Christians this Sunday day because, on Sunday morning, Jesus rose from the dead. Therefore, the content of Sunday is the resurrection of Christ, his new life, which prevailed throughout creation. God wants us to seek Him at this time more intense than ever. It is when he wants to be with us and longs for us, they wanted to be with him. Let’s pray together. Sir, let us seek you for your love to us. Let us look for you and find you. Let us know you. Let us experience strengthin your presence because you are always close.