Woman Untied
On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one
of the synagogues, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a
spirit for eighteen years.She was bent over and could not
straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and
said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” Then he
put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and
praised God.
Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue
ruler said to the people, “There are six days for work. So come and
be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.”
The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you on
the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out
to give it water? Then should not this woman, a daughter of
Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set
free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?”
When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the
people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was
doing.