Luke 13:10

Healing on a Sabbath

10 Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.

Luke 13:10 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 13:10

And he was teaching in one of the synagogues
That is Jesus, as the Syriac and Persic versions express it; which was his work, he being a teacher sent from God, and who took all opportunities of instructing men in the truths of the Gospel; this was done either in Galilee, or in Judea, in one of the synagogues of some city there, for in their larger cities there were more synagogues than one. In Jerusalem, we are told ^F15, there were three hundred and ninety four synagogues; and other writers ^F16 increase their number, and say, there were four hundred and eighty: and it was

on the sabbath;
which was now in force, and was religiously observed by Christ.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 T. Bab. Cetubot, fol. 105. 1.
F16 Pesikta in Jarchi in Isa. i. 21. Shirhashirim Rabba, fol. 20. 3. Ecka Rabbati, fol. 37. 4.

Luke 13:10 In-Context

8 The gardener responded, ‘Lord, give it one more year, and I will dig around it and give it fertilizer.

9 Maybe it will produce fruit next year; if not, then you can cut it down.'"

10 Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.

11 A woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and couldn't stand up straight.

12 When he saw her, Jesus called her to him and said, "Woman, you are set free from your sickness."