Luke 13:11
a woman was there who had had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years; and she was bent over, and could not straighten herself at all.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
10And when Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, on the sabbath,
12And Jesus saw her, and called her, and said to her: Woman, thou art released from thy infirmity.
Cross References
Mark 9:21And Jesus asked his father, how long a time he had been thus. He said to him: Lo, from his childhood.
Luke 8:27And when he went out upon the land, there, met him a man of the city, in whom had been a demon for a long time; and he wore no clothing, and did not reside in a house, but among the tombs.
Luke 13:16And this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom the Calumniator hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, ought she not to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
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 →