Luke 8:45 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 8:45

“Who touched Me?” Jesus asked. But they all denied it. “Master,” said Peter, “the people are crowding and pressing against You.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And Jesus said, Who is it that touched me? And when all denied, Peter said, and they that were with him, Master, the multitudes press thee and crush thee.

KJV

And 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?

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Commentary

2 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (604)

(Mor. 3. c. 11. Job 2.) But while the crowd thronged Him, one woman touched our Redeemer, because all carnal men in the Church oppress Him from whom they are afar off, and they alone touch Him who are joined to Him in humility. () The crowd therefore press Him and touch Him not, because it is both importunate in presence, and absent in life.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Ambrose of Milan

Commentary on Luke (397)

The assembly of the nations is like the woman who spent all her money on physicians. The assembly of nations also lost all the gifts of nature and squandered the inheritance of life. It was holy, shy, pious, ready in faith, and hesitant in modesty, because it is a sign of modesty to recognize the weakness of faith and not to despair of pardon. The shy woman touched the hem, the faithful approached, the pious believed, the wise knew she was healed.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And Jesus said, who touched me?.... This he said, not as ignorant of the person that had done it, but in order to discover her to the people, and the cure she had received, as well as her faith; See Gill on Mar 5:

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

How much misery and trouble — sin has brought into the world! The passage we have just read affords a melancholy proof of this. First we see a distressed father in bitter anxiety about a dying daughter. Then we see a suffering woman , who has been afflicted twelve years with an incurable disease. And these are things which sin has sown broadcast over the whole earth! These are but examples of what is going on continually on every side.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
εἶπεν	eipen	said	G2036 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰησοῦς·	Iēsous	Jesus;	G2424 →
τίς	tis	Who [is]	G5101 →
ὁ	ho	the [one]	G3588 →
ἁψάμενός	hapsamenos	having touched	G681 →
μου;	mou	Me?	G3165 →
ἀρνουμένων	arnoumenōn	When is denying [it]	G720 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
πάντων	pantōn	everyone	G3956 →
εἶπεν	eipen	said	G2036 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Πέτρος	Petros	Peter	G4074 →
ἐπιστάτα,	epistata	Master,	G1988 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
ὄχλοι	ochloi	people	G3793 →
συνέχουσίν	sunechousin	surround	G4912 →
σε	se	You	G4771 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀποθλίβουσιν	apothlibousin	press in	G598 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 5:5
“Master,” Simon replied, “we have worked hard all night without catching anything. But because You say so, I will let down the nets.”
leads to
- John 2:5
  His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”
- John 15:14
  You are My friends if you do what I command you.
- Luke 6:46–48
  Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say?
- 2 Kings 5:10–14
  Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.”
- Ezekiel 37:4–7
  And He said to me, “Prophesy concerning these bones and tell them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!
Through
Luke 9:13
But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” “We have only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.”
leads to
- Proverbs 11:24–25
  One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.
- 2 Kings 4:42–43
  Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.
- John 6:5–9
  When Jesus looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward Him, He said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?”

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Luke

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Luke