And if you practice doing good only to those who do good to you, what credit do you get for that? Even notorious sinners practice the same.

Does he praise the slave for doing what he was ordered to do?

And some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath?"

and said to Him, "Tell us what sort of authority you have for doing as you do, or who is it that gave you such authority?"

Then Jesus said to them, "Nor am I going to tell you what sort of authority I have for doing as I do."