Luke 13:11-17

¹¹and 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.

¹²When Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said, “Woman, you are released from your weakness.”

¹³He placed his hands on her, and she was instantly made straight, and began to praise God.

¹⁴But the synagogue leader, indignant that Jesus had worked the cure on the Sabbath, intervened and said to the people, “There are six days on which work ought to be done; come to be cured on one of those, and not on the Sabbath.”

¹⁵“You hypocrites!” the Master answered him. “Does not everyone of you let your ox or your ass loose from its manger, and take it out to drink, on the Sabbath?

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?”

¹⁷As he said this, his opponents all felt ashamed; but all the people rejoiced to see all the wonderful things that he was doing.