And he was preaching, saying, "One [who is] more powerful than I is coming after me, of whom I am not worthy to bend down [and] untie the strap of his sandals.

And behold, a woman [was there] who had a spirit {that had disabled her} [for] eighteen years, and she was bent over and not able to straighten herself up completely.

But Mary stood outside at the tomb, weeping. Then, while she was weeping, she bent over to look into the tomb,

But what does the divine response say to him? "I have left for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal."

let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and cause their backs to bend {continually}."

On account of this, I bend my knees before the Father,