Satan takes this woman and binds her with this handicap for 18 years. How would that feel? To be crippled for 18 years, not being able to move much at all? Then Jesus comes along and heals her, and immediately she praises the Lord.
Consider what Satan attempts to do to us. He takes us and binds us to sin and afflicts us with all the miserable consequences. He steals our purity, he stains our conscience, he makes life empty, he can take away our health, he breaks up our families, he leaves us unhappy, he causes us to suffer, he ruins lives, and in the end, he kills us. These are the miserable consequences to all his lies. He grabs us and makes us slaves until Jesus comes along.
As we partake of the Lord’s Supper, let us remember that Jesus came to set us free from Satan and sin. He is able to free us from whatever Satan is doing to us. "Shouldn’t this woman ... whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free from ON THE SABBATH DAY from what bound her?"
On this Lord’s Day, Jesus is ready to set each of us free from the sin and misery in which Satan might be binding us.