Then He said to them, “Which one of you, having a son or an ox that falls into a well, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?”
this is the interpretation, O king: It is the decree of the Most High [God], which has come upon my lord the king:
But the Lord replied to him, “You hypocrites (play-actors, pretenders)! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the stall and lead it away to water it?
But they kept silent. Then He took hold of the man and healed him, and sent him on his way.