Lukas 13:13

13 En Hij legde de handen op haar; en zij werd terstond weder recht, en verheerlijkte God.

Lukas 13:13 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 13:13

And he laid his hands on her
As he spoke the above words, which he sometimes did when he healed diseases.

And immediately she was made straight;
she lift up herself, stood upright, and her body, and all the parts of it were as straight as ever they had been, or as any were in the synagogue.

And glorified God;
that is, "the woman" glorified God, as the Persic version expresses it; she was filled with thankfulness for the mercy, and gave God the glory of it. This woman was an emblem of a poor sinner held in the bonds of iniquity by Satan, and led captive by him at his will, who can by no means raise himself; nor is he able to lift up his head to heaven, or look upwards to Christ for deliverance; and yet attends upon the outward ministry, when Christ, in his own time, meets with him under it, and manifests his power and grace, breaks his bonds asunder, delivers him out of Satan's hands, and from the bondage of his own corruptions, sets him straight, and causes him to lift up his head, and look to him for life and salvation; and so puts a new song into his mouth, even praise to God, to whose free grace and favour he readily ascribes his deliverance.

Lukas 13:13 In-Context

11 En ziet, er was een vrouw, die een geest der krankheid achttien jaren lang gehad had, en zij was samengebogen, en kon zich ganselijk niet oprichten.

12 En Jezus, haar ziende, riep haar tot Zich, en zeide tot haar: Vrouw, gij zijt verlost van uw krankheid.

13 En Hij legde de handen op haar; en zij werd terstond weder recht, en verheerlijkte God.

14 En de overste der synagoge, kwalijk nemende, dat Jezus op den sabbat genezen had, antwoordde en zeide tot de schare: Er zijn zes dagen, in welke men moet werken; komt dan in dezelve, en laat u genezen, en niet op den dag des sabbats.

15 De Heere dan antwoordde hem en zeide: Gij geveinsde, maakt niet een iegelijk van u op den sabbat zijn os of ezel van de kribbe los, en leidt hem heen om te doen drinken?