What we or Pharisees see as the exception to the rule is in fact fitting for the rule - we are idiots!
In the Bible, there were examples of Jesus healing on the Sabbath. The Pharisees of the time saw this as heretical because they had interpreted the keeping of the Sabbath to mean doing no work at all, even in the case of dealing with emergencies or healing.
In this Bible verse, we will see an example of Jesus healing on the Sabbath and what ensued. We can see that the Pharisees clearly thought of this as Jesus trying to make an exception to the rules:
He left that place and entered their synagogue; a man was there with a withered hand, and they asked him, ‘Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath?’ so that they might accuse him. He said to them, ‘Suppose one of you has only one sheep and it falls into a pit on the sabbath; will you not lay hold of it and lift it out? How much more valuable is a human being than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.’ Then he said to the man, ‘Stretch out your hand.’ He stretched it out, and it was restored, as sound as the other. But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.
Matthew 12: 9-14
Yet as we can see from the Bible in the passage above, Jesus saw healing as something that was good - regardless of what day of the week it was. He pointed out that if someone had a sheep that needed rescuing, they would certainly rescue it on the sabbath. Therefore, it should be the same way for healing a human, which is more valuable than a sheep.
Indeed, it was only humans who had put in the arbitrary rule about no healing on the Sabbath. They had interpreted the day of rest to absurd limits, such that they saw Jesus's work of healing on the Sabbath as an exception to the rule. Yet His work of healing should be the rule, not the exception!
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