Luke 13:11-17

¹¹There was a woman there with bad spirit inside her. A long time before that, the bad spirit went into that woman and made her back crooked. That bad spirit lived in her for 18 years, and all that time her back was bent over. She couldn’t stand up straight.

¹²Jesus saw her in that meeting house and said to her, “Come here, lady. You are better now. You are free from that sickness.”

¹³Then he put his hands on her, and straight away she stood up straight. She said, “Oh God, you are really good.”

¹⁴But the boss of that meeting house was angry, because Jesus made a sick woman better on their rest day. So he told the people, “Listen, you mob. There are 6 days for work each week, so come on any one of those days and get him to make you better. But Saturday is our rest day. Don’t come on Saturday.”

¹⁵Jesus said to him, “You mob are wrong. You say one thing, but you yourselves do something different. You work on Saturdays too. You see, you keep bullocks and donkeys tied up in your yards, and every day you untie them and take them out to a water hole to let them drink. You do that on Saturdays too.

¹⁶Now look at this woman here. She belongs to Abraham’s family. But the boss of the devils, called Satan, he made her back bad a long time ago. It’s like he has kept her tied up with this problem for 18 years. So why can’t I untie her, even on a Saturday?”

¹⁷When Jesus said those words, the bosses of that meeting house were ashamed, but all the people were happy, because Jesus was doing a lot of really good things there.