Luke 13:11
And an isha which had a ruach hamachla (a spirit of an infirmity, illness) shmonah asar (eighteen) years was bent double and was not able to straighten up at all.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
10Now in one of the shuls Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying shiurim on Shabbos.
Cross References
Psalms 6:2Hashem, rebuke me not in Thine anger, 1 neither chasten me in Thy hot displeasure. 1
Psalms 42:5When I remember these things, 1 I pour out my nefesh within me; 1 for I had gone with the multitude, 1 I went with them to the Beis Elohim 1 with the voice of rinnah and todah, 1 with the multitude keeping Chag (holy day, pilgrim feast). 1
Psalms 146:8Hashem openeth the eyes of the ivrim: 1 Hashem raiseth them that are bowed down: 1 Hashem loveth the tzaddikim: 1
Mark 9:21And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach questioned the bocherʼs abba, How long has this been happening to him? And he said, From kinder-yoren.
Luke 8:27And as Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach disembarked upon the shore, he was met from the town by a certain ish possessed by shedim; and the ish had not worn clothing for a long time and was not living in a bais but among the kevarim (graves).
Luke 13:16But ought not this isha, a bat Avraham Avinu as she is, whom HaSatan has bound hinei, nebbach (regrettably) these shmonah asar (eighteen) long years — should she not have been set free from this bond on Shabbos?
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 →