Jesus Heals a Disabled Woman
10 One Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues,
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and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.
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When Jesus saw her, He called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your disability.”
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Then He placed His hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and began to glorify God.
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But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath.”
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“You hypocrites!” the Lord replied. “Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it to water?
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Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”
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When Jesus said this, all His adversaries were humiliated. And the whole crowd rejoiced at all the glorious things He was doing.
The Parable of the Mustard Seed
18 Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it?
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It is like a mustard seed that a man tossed into his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.”
The Parable of the Leaven
20 Again He asked, “To what can I compare the kingdom of God?
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It is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”