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.
