Daughter of Abraham (θυγατερα Αβρααμ). Triple argument, human being and not an ox or ass, woman, daughter of Abraham (Jewess), bes…

A daughter of Abraham. A descendant of Abraham. See Barnes on Matthew 1:1.

She was therefore a Jewess; and the ruler of the synagog…

Whom Satan hath bound.—The words imply the belief that there was another source than mere bodily disease for the infirmity—in part…

And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and…

St. Ambrose of Milan: He soon explained that He had been speaking of the synagogue, showing that He truly came to it, since …

The controversy over Jesus’ Sabbath activities now comes to the fore as the synagogue ruler speaks to the people on the ground of Ex 20:9–10. He av…

And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham ,
&c.] Not only a woman, or rational creature, and much prefer…

Our Lord Jesus attended public worship on the Sabbaths. Even bodily infirmities, unless very grievous, should not keep us from public worship on Sa…