Luke 13: 7-10
On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.
In
my lifetime I have heard very possible technique declared as the way to
earn God's favour: you've got to pray like this, or have faith like
that, or lay out this fleece, or perform that sacrificial act. Do the
right thing in the right way and God will deliver.
This crippled woman does nothing except go to the synagogue to worship. Nothing else at all.
As
Jesus continues his journey to the cross, he also goes to worship and
he notices her. After calling her to the front, he commits the publicly
scandalous act of touching a woman he does not know in a
gender-segregated place of worship, and she is set free.
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