Luke 8:44

She came up behind Jesus and touched the fringe of his garment, and the flow of her blood stopped at once.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.

In Context

43Now there was a woman who had suffered from a flow of blood for twelve years, and even though she had spent her entire livelihood on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone.

45Then Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When everyone denied it, Peter and those who were with him said, “Master, the crowds are surrounding yoʋ and pressing against yoʋ, and yet yoʋ say, ‘Who touched me?’”

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Cross References

Matthew 20:34Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

Mark 6:56And wherever he went, to villages, cities, or the countryside, they would lay the sick in the marketplaces and beg him to let the sick touch even the fringe of his garment. And all who touched it were healed.

Luke 13:13Then he laid his hands on her, and at once her back was made straight, and she began glorifying God.

Acts 5:15As a result, people carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and mats, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on one of them.

Matthew Henry on Luke 8:41-56

The Issue of Blood Healed; The Ruler's Daughter Raised. 40 And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him. 41 And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and besought him that he would come into his house: 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. 43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve… Read the whole commentary →

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