But Jesus said, “Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me.”
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But Jesus said, “Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me.”
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And Iesus sayd: Some body touched me. For I perceave that vertue is gone out of me.
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And Iesus sayde, Some one hath touched me: for I perceiue that vertue is gone out of me.
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Passages linked to Luke 8:46 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Luke 6:19 All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all.
- Luke 5:17 On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.
- 1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And when the woman saw that she was not…
And when the woman saw that she was not hid,.... From Christ, among the crowd, nor the thing that she had done. The Syriac and Arabic versions render it, "that he had not forgot her"; she hoping he would be diverted from taking any notice of her and her action, through the crowd of people about him;
she came trembling; for fear of the anger and resentment of Christ, and lest the favour would be revoked, and the penalty of the law inflicted; See Gill on Mar 5:33.
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And falling down before him; in the most humble manner, "at his feet", as the Arabic version reads; "and worshipped him", as the Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions have it; gave him the glory of the cure, and thanks for it:
she declared unto him before all the people; the whole truth of the matter, what a disease she had laboured under for so long a time, what means she had used to no purpose:
for what cause she had touched him; namely, in order to have a cure, which she believed she should have in that way:
and how she was healed immediately; as soon as ever she had touched him.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 46. I perceive that virtue] δυναμιν, Divine or…
Verse 46. I perceive that virtue] δυναμιν, Divine or miraculous power. This Divine emanation did not proceed always from Christ, as necessarily as odours do from plants, for then all who touched him must have been equally partakers of it. Of the many that touched him, this woman and none else received this Divine virtue; and why? Because she came in faith. Faith alone attracts and receives the energetic influence of God at all times. There would be more miracles, at least of spiritual healing, were there more faith among those who are called believers.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Somebody hath touched--yes, the multitude "thronged" and pressed Him--"they…
Somebody hath touched--yes, the multitude "thronged" and pressed Him--"they jostled against Him," but all involuntarily; they were merely carried along; but one, one only--"Somebody TOUCHED" HIM, with the conscious, voluntary, dependent touch of faith, reaching forth its hands expressly to have contact with Him. This and this only Jesus acknowledges and seeks out. Even so, as the Church Father AUGUSTINE long ago said, multitudes still come similarly close to Christ in the means of grace, but all to no purpose, being only sucked into the crowd. The voluntary, living contact of faith is that electric conductor which alone draws virtue out of Him.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 46. Somebody hath touched me] Rather, Some one touched…
46. Somebody hath touched me] Rather, Some one touched me. “They press; she touches.” Aug. “Flesh presses; faith touches.” Id. Our Lord’s question was meant to reach the woman’s heart, comp. Gen_3:9; Gen_4:9; 2Ki_5:25.
I perceive that virtue is gone out of me] Literally, “I recognised power going forth from me;” or perceived that power had gone forth from me, if we read exeleluthuian. Comp. Luk_6:19.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (46) Somebody hath touched me.—What St. Mark gives historically…
(46) Somebody hath touched me.—What St. Mark gives historically as a fact, St. Luke reports as uttered by our Lord Himself.
That virtue is gone out of me.—See Note on Mar_5:30. To St. Luke the word was probably familiar as a technical term.
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