Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman on the Sabbath

10 On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues,x 11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years.y She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” 13 Then he put his hands on her,z and immediately she straightened up and praised God.

14 Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath,a the synagogue leaderb said to the people, “There are six days for work.c So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.”

15 The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you on the Sabbath untie your ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water?d 16 Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham,e whom Satanf has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?”

17 When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated,g but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing.

The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast

13:18,19pp—Mk 4:30–32
13:18–21pp—Mt 13:31–33

18 Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of Godh like?i What shall I compare it to? 19 It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree,j and the birds perched in its branches.”k

20 Again he asked, “What shall I compare the kingdom of God to? 21 It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty poundsa of flour until it worked all through the dough.”l