¹¹ and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years.^(A) She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.

¹⁶ Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham,^(A) whom Satan^(B) has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?”

² and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene)^(A) from whom seven demons had come out;

²⁷ When Jesus stepped ashore, he was met by a demon-possessed man from the town. For a long time this man had not worn clothes or lived in a house, but had lived in the tombs.

²¹ Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has he been like this?”

“From childhood,” he answered.