Bent

Jesus heals the Bent-Over Woman crippled for eighteen years - James Tissot, Brooklyn Museum.

The healing of the woman bent over for eighteen years serves as a pretext for Enemies of Jesus to attack him over the miracles he also performs on Sabbath days.

In "The Gospel as Revealed to Me"

• Healing of Martha, the woman bent over for eighteen years, healed because of her faith, by Jesus on a Sabbath day in the synagogue of Corozaïn. But the synagogue leader, outraged that Jesus had performed a healing on the Sabbath, took the floor and said to the crowd: "There are six days on which work is to be done; come on those days to be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!" But the Lord replied to him: "Hypocrites! Each of you on the Sabbath unties his ox or donkey from the manger to lead it to water? And this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen years, should she not have been loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day!" and

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