Luke 13:11
and he saw before him a woman who for eighteen years had suffered from weakness owing to her having an evil spirit in her. She was bent double, and was wholly unable to raise herself.
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10Jesus was teaching on a Sabbath in one of the synagogues,
12When Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said, ‘Woman, you are released from your weakness.’
Cross References
Psalms 6:2Lord, be gracious to me in my weakness. Heal me Lord, for racked is my body;
Psalms 42:5Why am I downcast? Why this moaning within me? Hope in God; for yet will I praise him, my help, my God.
Psalms 146:8The Lord gives sight to the blind: the Lord raises those who are bowed. The Lord loves the righteous.
Mark 9:21‘How long has he been like this?’ Jesus asked the boy’s father.
Luke 8:27and, on getting ashore, Jesus met a man, who had demons in him, coming out of the town. For a long time this man had worn no clothing, and he had not lived in a house, but in the tombs.
Luke 13:16But this woman, a daughter of Abraham, who has been kept in bondage by Satan for now eighteen years, ought not she to have been released from her bondage on the Sabbath?’
Matthew Henry on Luke 13:11-18
The Infirm Woman Healed. 10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. 11 And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. 12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. 13 And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. 14 And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus… Read the whole commentary →