Medium (20-45 mins)
New Testament
AnglicanEvangelical
158 Jesus heals the woman bent double in Luke 13
Theologian
Ian Paul
Duration
30.41
Uploaded to YouTube
18 August 2025
Added to Database
12 November 2025
YouTube description
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The gospel reading for Trinity 10 in Year C is Luke 13.10–17, a short but remarkable story of Jesus healing a woman bent double. It has a striking literary structure; we can detect issues relevant both to Jesus' audience and Luke's readers; and there are some amazing insights to the story from the significance of the number 18.
And James offers a connection with the Old Testament which no commentator has previously spotted! Come and join the discussion!
Written commentary on this passage can be found on the blog at www.psephizo.com
