Jesus healing an infirm woman

[1] According to the Gospel, Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on Sabbath, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years.

Indignant because Jesus had healed on Sabbath, the synagogue ruler said to the people, "There are six days for work.

Cornelius a Lapide comments that the woman "crippled by a spirit" shows "that diseases are often sent by the devils, through the permission of God, for sins or other reasons."

This agrees with verse 16 which states, that the woman "Satan had kept bound for eighteen long years."

"[3] John McEvilly writes that the verb "loosed" (gk: λύω)[4] is used in this passage because previously her sinews and muscles had been contracted, while after the cure, "immediately she was straight,” and the curvature was gone.