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Luke 8:44 KJV
Luke · chapter 8 · verse 44
Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.Luke 8:44 · King James Version
Luke 8:44 in context
42For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.
43And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
44Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
45And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
46And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- immediatelyparachrēmaimmediately, forthwith, instantlyG3916 →
- touchedhaptomaito fasten one s self to, adhere to, cling to, to touch, of carnal intercourse with a…G680 →
- garmenthimationa garment , garmentsG2440 →
- behindopisthenfrom behind, on the back, behind, afterG3693 →
- borderkraspedonthe extremity or prominent part of a thing, edge, skirt, margin, the fringe of a garment…G2899 →
- issuerhysisa flowing issueG4511 →
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Christ was driven away by the Gadarenes; they were weary of him, and willing to be rid of him. But when he had crossed the water, and returned to the Galileans, they gladly received him, wished and waited for his return, and welcomed him with all their hearts when he did return, Luk 8:40.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 40-56