A few women whom Jesus had healed traveled with Him and His disciples. These women used their own private means to support the ministry of Jesus financially. In Jewish Synagogues women were segregated by a partition from the men and their own access in the building was via an outside staircase. At a local Synagogue, Jesus stopped teaching and healed a crippled woman, bent double for eighteen years. During this one incident, Jesus broke seven Traditional Jewish Laws which were man-made extension of God's Laws that were given to Moses. 1. Acknowledging a woman in public. 2. Calling to her and asking her to come to Him in public.3. Allowing her to enter the men's section of the Synagogue. 4. Touching a woman in public. 5. Admitting her to enter the podium in the centre.6. Permitting her to be in the place of honour in front of important Jewish Teachers Seats at the Synagogue. 7. He healed her on the Jewish Sabbath. The woman praised God for her healing, but the local ruler of the Synagogue was very annoyed; public opinion was on Jesus' side. Luke 13

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