Is it lawful to cure on the Sabbath, 1969

Record number
cm000069
Title

Is it lawful to cure on the Sabbath

Date
1969
Medium
conté
Support
paper
Dimensions
1555 x 555 mm
Inscriptions

McCahon Sept 5 '69 (conté crayon, b.r.)

Credit line
on loan from a private collection
Accession number
L1998/28/35
Extended inscriptions

IS IT / LAWFUL / TO CURE / ON THE / SABBATH
which of you shall have / an ass or an ox fall / into a fit and will / not immediately draw him / up on the Sabbath.
But they remained / silent. / They could give / him no answer /
FRIEND GO UP HIGHER

Exhibition history

1969 Written paintings and drawings: Colin McCahon
Barry Lett Galleries
Auckland
6/10/1969 - 17/10/1969

Notes

The text is Luke 14:3-6; 10 as it appears in the New Sunday Missal (Catholic Book Publishing Co, New York, 1961).