And
He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And there was a woman who for eighteen years
had had a sickness caused by a spirit; and she was bent double, and could not
straighten up at all.
When
Jesus saw her, He called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from
your sickness.”
And
He laid hands on her; and immediately she was made erect again and began
glorifying God.
But
the synagogue official, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath,
began saying to the crowd in response, “There are six days in which work should
be done; so come during them and get healed, and not on the Sabbath day.”
But
the Lord answered him and said, “You hypocrites, does not each of you on the Sabbath
untie his ox or his donkey from the stall and lead him away to water him? 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?”
As
He said this, all His opponents were being humiliated; and the entire crowd was
rejoicing over all the glorious things being done by Him.
Luke
13:10-17
When
we set out to do good, there will always be critics arguing against the good we
are doing. Just look at the never ending
debate in the United States Congress about the school lunch program that
provides low cost and/or free lunches to poor children. There are those who have the warped notion
that we should not feed hungry kids.
Where does that come from?
Martin
Luther King, Jr., said, “The time is always right to do what is right.”
Do
what is right.
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