for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.
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for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.
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for he had but a doughter only apon a twelve yere of age and she laye a dyinge. And as he went the people thronged him.
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For he had but a daughter onely, about twelue yeeres of age, and she lay a dying (and as he went, the people thronged him.
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- Luke 7:12 Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.
- Luke 8:45 Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”
- Genesis 44:20-22 We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’ You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’
- Job 1:18-19 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”
- Job 4:20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
- Psalms 90:5-8 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass. In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry. For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
- Psalms 103:15-16 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
- Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
- Ezekiel 24:16 “Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
- Ezekiel 24:25 “You, son of man, shouldn’t it be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,
- Mark 5:24 He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides.
- Romans 5:12 Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
- Zechariah 12:10 I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 42 For he had one only daughter, about twelve…
42 For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.
Ver. 42. See Mat 9:18; Mar 5:22.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And a woman having an issue of blood twelve…
And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years,.... The Persic version reads, "there was a woman in that city", &c. in the city of Capernaum; See Gill on Mat 9:20.
Which had spent all her living upon physicians; she had applied to one physician and another, and had consumed all her substance in this way:
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neither could be healed of any; though she had followed the directions and prescriptions of many, who pretended they were able to cure her; See Gill on Mar 5:26.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 42. The people thronged him.] συνεπνιγον αυτον -…
Verse 42. The people thronged him.] συνεπνιγον αυτον - almost suffocated him-so great was the throng about him.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 42. one only daughter] St Luke, whose keen sympathies…
42. one only daughter] St Luke, whose keen sympathies are everywhere observable in his Gospel, mentions the same touching fact in the case of the son of the widow of Nain (Luk_7:12), and the lunatic boy (Luk_9:38).
she lay a dying] St Matthew says “is even now dead” Perhaps we catch in these variations an echo of the father’s despairing uncertainty.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (42) About twelve years of age.—St. Luke, as with…
(42) About twelve years of age.—St. Luke, as with the precision of a practised writer, names the age at the beginning of the narrative, St. Mark incidentally (Mar_5:42) at its close.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain One only daughter. This is not the only place…
One only daughter. This is not the only place where the same touching detail is recorded by this evangelist. Compare the story of the widow"s son at Nain, (Luk_7:12) and the healing of the lunatic boy. (Luk_9:38) St. Luke"s Gospel owes these and many similar touches of deep true sympathy to the great loving heart of the real author of the third Gospel, Paul.
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