Luke 13:10-17

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Jesus heals a crippled woman on the sabbath

¹⁰ One sabbath, Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues. ¹¹ There was a woman there who had had a spirit of weakness for eighteen years. She was bent double, and couldn’t stand fully upright. ¹² Jesus saw her and called to her.

¹³ “Woman,” he said, laying his hands on her, “you are freed from your affliction.” And at once she stood upright, and praised God.

¹⁴ The synagogue president was angry that Jesus had healed on the sabbath.

“Look here,” he said to the crowd, “there are six days for people to work! Come on one of those days and be healed, not on the sabbath day!”

¹⁵ “You bunch of hypocrites!” replied Jesus. “You would all be quite happy to untie an ox or a donkey from its stall on the sabbath day and lead it out for a drink! ¹⁶ And isn’t it right that this daughter of Abraham, tied up by the satan for these eighteen years, should be untied from her chains on the sabbath day?”

¹⁷ At that, all the people who had been opposing him were ashamed. The whole crowd was overjoyed at all the splendid things he was doing.