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APRIL 16

46:7 The LORD of hosts is with us.The precious 13:11 had a spirit of infirmity. This suggests
personal presence (see “God with us” in Is. that her physical ailment, which left her
7:14; 8:8,10) of the Divine Warrior (see “LORD of unable to stand erect, was caused by an evil
hosts” or “armies,” e.g., Pss. 24:10; 48:8; 59:5) spirit.However,Christ did not have to confront
secures the safety of His people. and drive out a demon, but simply declared
her loosed (v. 12), so her case appears some-
what different from other cases of demonic
He breaks the bow and cuts the spear possession He often encountered.
in two;
He burns the chariot in the fire. 13:12 He called her to Him. The healing was
10 Be still, and know that I am God; unsolicited; He took the initiative (see
I will be exalted among the nations, 7:12–14). Furthermore, no special faith was
required on her part or anyone else’s. Jesus
I will be exalted in the earth!
sometimes called for faith,but not always (see
11 The LORD of hosts is with us; 8:48; Mark 5:34).
The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah
year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.
And if it bears fruit, well. But if not, after that
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you can cut it down.’ ”
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Now He was teaching in one of the syna-
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46:10 Be still, and know that I am God. This gogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there
twin command to not panic and to recognize was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity
His sovereignty is probably directed to both eighteen years, and was bent over and could in
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His nation for comfort and all other nations for no way raise herself up. But when Jesus saw
warning. her, He called her to Him and said to her,
“Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.”
13 And He laid His hands on her, and immedi-
Proverbs 14:12–13
ately she was made straight, and glorified God.
12 There is a way that seems right to a man, 14 But the ruler of the synagogue answered
But its end is the way of death. with indignation, because Jesus had healed on
the Sabbath; and he said to the crowd, “There
Even in laughter the heart may sorrow,
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And the end of mirth may be grief. are six days on which men ought to work;
therefore come and be healed on them, and
Luke 13:1–22 not on the Sabbath day.”
15 The Lord then answered him and said, “Hyp-
There were present at that season some
13 who told Him about the Galileans whose ocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath
blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead it
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2 And Jesus answered and said to them, “Do away to water it? So ought not this woman, be-
you suppose that these Galileans were worse ing a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has
sinners than all other Galileans, because they bound—think of it—for eighteen years, be
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suffered such things? I tell you, no; but unless loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?” And
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you repent you will all likewise perish. Or when He said these things, all His adversaries
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those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam were put to shame; and all the multitude rejoiced
fell and killed them, do you think that they for all the glorious things that were done by Him.
were worse sinners than all other men who 18 Then He said, “What is the kingdom of God
dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, no; but unless like? And to what shall I compare it? It is like a
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you repent you will all likewise perish.” mustard seed, which a man took and put in his
6 He also spoke this parable: “A certain man garden; and it grew and became a large tree,
had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he and the birds of the air nested in its branches.”
came seeking fruit on it and found none. 20 And again He said, “To what shall I liken
Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, the kingdom of God? It is like leaven, which
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‘Look, for three years I have come seeking a woman took and hid in three measures of
fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it meal till it was all leavened.”
down; why does it use up the ground?’ But he 22 And He went through the cities and villages,
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answered and said to him, ‘Sir, let it alone this teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.
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