~ A Crippled Woman Healed on the Sabbath ~

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 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.

(Luke 13:10-17)