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Mat_12:11. The construction, like that of Mat_7:9, is a case of anacoluthon.
The futures indicate the supposed possible case; see Kühner, II. 1, p. 147: what man may there be from among you, and so on.
πρόβατον ἕν ] one, which on that account is all the dearer to him.
καὶ ἐὰν ἐμπέσῃ , κ . τ . λ .] There must have been no doubt as to whether such a thing was allowable, for Jesus argues ex concesso. The Talmud (Gemara) contains no such concession, but answers the question partly in a negative way, and partly by making casuistical stipulations. See the passages in Othonis, Lex Rabb. p. 527; Wetstein, and Buxtorf, Synag. c. 16.
κρατήσει αὐτὸ κ . ἐγερεῖ ] descriptive. He lays hold of the sheep that has fallen into a ditch ( βόθυνον , Xen. Oec. xix. 3, not exclusively a well, but any kind of hole, like βόθρος ), and, lifting out the animal lying bruised in the pit, he sets it upon its feet.