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He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.
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NEW TESTAMENT
All chapters Luke 13:10–17
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Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was bent over and could in no way straighten herself up.
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When Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.”
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13
He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and glorified God.
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The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, “There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!”
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Verse 14. The president of the synagogue, when he saw the woman, who before crept on the ground, now raised by the touch of Christ, and hearing the mandate of God, was filled with envy, and decried the miracle, apparently through solicitude for keeping the sabbath. But the truth is, he would rather see the poor woman bent to the earth like a beast, than see Christ glorified by healing her. S. Cyril ex D Thoma Aquin.
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Therefore the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath and lead him away to water?
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Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”
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As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed; and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
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