(Luke xiii, 10-17.) And he was teaching in their synagogue on the sabbaths. And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years; and she was bowed together, and could not at all look upwards. Whom when Jesus saw, he called her to him, and said to her: Woman, thou art loosed from thy infirmity. And he laid his hands upon her; and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. But the ruler of the synagogue, being angry that Jesus had healed on the sabbath, said: There are six days in which men ought to work; on these come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day. But Jesus answering said: Hypocrites, doth not every one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the manger, and lead them to water?
And ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? And when he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame; and all the people rejoiced for all the things that were gloriously done by him.