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Then he said to them, “Who among you, if your son or ox[a] falls into a cistern, would not immediately pull him out on the sabbath day?”(A)

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  1. 14:5 Your son or ox: this is the reading of many of the oldest and most important New Testament manuscripts. Because of the strange collocation of son and ox, some copyists have altered it to “your ass or ox,” on the model of the saying in Lk 13:15.

You shall not see your neighbor’s donkey or ox fallen on the road and ignore it; you must help in lifting it up.

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11 [a]He said to them, “Which one of you who has a sheep that falls into a pit on the sabbath will not take hold of it and lift it out?

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  1. 12:11 Matthew omits the question posed by Jesus in Mk 3:4 and substitutes one about rescuing a sheep on the sabbath, similar to that in Lk 14:5.