John Calvin Commentary Luke 13:14

"And the ruler of the synagogue, being moved with indignation because Jesus had healed on the sabbath, answered and said to the multitude, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the day of the sabbath." — Luke 13:14 (ASV)

There are six days. This reprover does not dare to criticize Christ openly, but directs the venom of his dislike elsewhere, and indirectly condemns Christ in the person of the multitude. What an astonishing display of furious malice! Six days, he tells them, were set apart for labor; but how incorrectly and foolishly does he define that work, which is permitted only on six days! Why does he not also forbid them to enter the synagogue, for fear that they might violate the Sabbath? Why does he not order them to refrain from all the exercises of godliness? But even if people are restrained from their usual work on the Sabbath-day, how unreasonable it is that God's grace should be limited in that way!

On them, therefore, come and you will be cured. He tells them to come on the other days to seek a cure, as if God's power were asleep on Sabbath, and was not instead exerted mainly on that day for the salvation of his people. What purpose do the holy assemblies serve, except to give believers an opportunity to entreat the Divine assistance? That ungodly hypocrite talks as if the lawful observance of the Sabbath interrupted the course of God’s favors, hindered people from calling upon him, and took away from them all sense of his kindness.