13 ¹⁰ One Sabbath he was teaching in a synagogue, 13 ¹¹ and there was a woman there possessed by a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. 13 ¹² She was bent double and quite unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her he called her and said, 'You are rid of your trouble.' 13 ¹³ Then he laid his hands on her, and at once she straightened up and began to praise God. 13 ¹⁴ But the president of the synagogue, indignant with Jesus for healing on the Sabbath, intervened and said to the congregation, 'There are six working-days: come and be cured on one of them, and not on the Sabbath.' 13 ¹⁵ The Lord gave him his answer: 'What hypocrites you are!' he said. 'Is there a single one of you who does not loose his ox or his donkey from the manger and take it out to water on the Sabbath? 13 ¹⁶ And here is this woman, a daughter of Abraham, who has been kept prisoner by Satan for eighteen long years: was it wrong for her to be freed from her bonds on the Sabbath?' 13 ¹⁷ At these words all his opponents were covered with confusion, while the mass of the people were delighted at all the wonderful things he was doing.