They remained silent. Jesus took hold of the man and cured him, and sent him away.
No one could say a word in answer; nor did any one after that day venture to question him further.
"Is it allowable," said Jesus, addressing the Students of the Law and the Pharisees, "to work a cure on the Sabbath, or is it not?"
And he said to them: "Which of you, finding that his son or his ox has fallen into a well, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath Day?"