Morning Bible Study: Luke 13:10-17

Healing a Daughter of Abraham
10 As he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath, 

11 a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit [Lit had a spirit of disability] for over eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. [Or straighten up completely] 

12 When Jesus saw her, he called out to her, “Woman, you are free of your disability.” 

13 Then he laid his hands on her, and instantly she was restored and began to glorify God.

14 But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, “There are six days when work should be done; therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.”

15 But the Lord answered him and said, “Hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you untie his ox or donkey from the feeding trough on the Sabbath and lead it to water? 

16 Satan has bound this woman, a daughter of Abraham, for eighteen years—shouldn’t she be untied from this bondage [Or isn’t it necessary that she be untied from this bondage] on the Sabbath day?”

17 When he had said these things, all his adversaries were humiliated, but the whole crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things he was doing.

Commentary
(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary, 1706 -- www.christianity.com)

"Our Lord Jesus attended upon public worship on the sabbaths. Even bodily infirmities, unless very grievous, should not keep us from public worship on sabbath days. This woman came to Christ to be taught, and to get good to her soul, and then he relieved her bodily infirmity. This cure represents the work of Christ's grace upon the soul. And when crooked souls are made straight, they will show it by glorifying God. 

Christ knew that this ruler [leader of the synagogue] had a real enmity to him and to his gospel, and that he did but cloak it with a pretended zeal for the sabbath day; he really would not have them be healed any day; but if Jesus speaks the word, and puts forth his healing power, sinners are set free. This deliverance is often wrought on the Lord's day; and whatever labor tends to put men in the way of receiving the blessing, agrees with the design of that day."