What must her life have been like? (Luke 12:57-13:17) "She was bent double and could not straighten up at all." You can only see the ground that way. How can you even have a conversation?
Probably people just ignored her. But Jesus saw her. And when she shuffled over to His call, He said, "Woman. you are freed from your sickness". At His touch "immediately she was made erect again and began glorifying God".
Yeah! The people around shared her joy. But not those Jewish church leaders. They started indignantly going on about how people should come and get healed during the work week and not on a worship day. It's just not right on God's day, they thought.
So Jesus cries "hypocrites" and asks if they would untie their donkey on God's day to lead him to water. "And this woman, a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, should she not have been released from this bond on the Sabbath day?"
Wow! We have to rejoice with the crowd over such a wonderful answer, put down of the hypocrites, and display of compassion.
Lord, give us Your kind of love and compassion - whether everyone approves or not.
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