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Whom when Jesus saw, he called her unto him and said to her: Woman, thou art delivered from thy infirmity.
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And he laid his hands upon her: and immediately she was made straight and glorified God.
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And the ruler of the synagogue being angry that Jesus had healed on the sabbath answering, said to the multitude: Six days there are wherein you ought to work. In them therefore come and be healed: and not on the sabbath day.
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And the Lord answering him, said: Ye hypocrites, doth not every one of you, on the sabbath day, loose his ox or his ass from the manger and lead them to water?
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And ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
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And when he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the things that were gloriously done by him.
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He said therefore: To what is the kingdom of God like, and whereunto shall I resemble it?
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It is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and cast into his garden: and it grew and became a great tree, and the birds of the air lodged in the branches thereof.
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And again he said: Whereunto shall I esteem the kingdom of God to be like?
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It is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
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And he went through the cities and towns teaching and making his journey to Jerusalem.