Luke 8:43

And a certain woman, whose blood had flowed twelve years, and who had expended all her property among physicians, and could not be cured by any one,

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,

In Context

42for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was near dying. And as Jesus went with him, a great multitude pressed upon him.

44came up behind him, and touched the border of his garment; and immediately the flow of her blood stopped.

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Cross References

Mark 5:25And a woman who had had a defluxion of blood twelve years,

Mark 9:21And Jesus asked his father, how long a time he had been thus. He said to him: Lo, from his childhood.

Luke 13:11a woman was there who had had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years; and she was bent over, and could not straighten herself at all.

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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