healing has been linked with forgiveness and salvation (5:12–16 and 17–26 respectively), this angry reaction raises the question whether the Pharisees will obstruct Jesus’ ministry or not.23 Luke also paves the way for further unfavourable characterization of the Pharisees in 6:39–42 as Jesus teaches about a judgmentalism that ignores its own faults while attacking the faults of others (v. 41). The reader has certainly seen the Pharisees critical of the faults of others by this point. Such people