Sharing is Caring

“When we hold fast to the words of Jesus,  who is the Truth, we can proclaim that we have already been set free from every ‘spirit of weakness’ that oppresses us.”             “When Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath, there was a woman 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” (Luke 13:10–13).       (1)     After reading today’s passage, Luke 13:10–13, I also read it in the original Greek text.   In doing so, I became particularly interested in one phrase and two words:   (a)     The phrase is “γυνὴ πνεῦμα ἔχουσα ἀσθενείας” (gynē pneuma echousa astheneias) (v. 11), which, when translat...