Luke 8:46 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 8:46

But Jesus declared, “Someone touched Me, for I know that power has gone out from Me.”

BSB

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ASV

But Jesus said, Some one did touch me; for I perceived that power had gone forth from me.

KJV

And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.

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Commentary

2 voices

Cyril of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 45 (444)

That woman was delivered, being saved from a state of suffering thus bitter and incurable; and thereby we again obtain the firm assurance, that the Emmanuel is very God. How and in what manner? Both from the miraculous event itself, and from the words which with divine dignity He spake. "For, I know, He said, that power has gone forth from Me." But it transcends our degree, or probably that even of the angels, to send forth any power, and that of their own nature, as something that is of themselves.

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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 Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And Jesus said, somebody hath touched me,.... Not in a common and accidental way, but with design, and in the strength of faith: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me: for the cure of the person that had touched him, and that not without his knowledge and will; See Gill on Luk 6:19.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It was his delight that virtue was gone out of him to do any good, and he did not grudge it to the meanest; they were as welcome to it as to the light and heat of the sun. Nor had he the less virtue in him for the going out of the virtue from him for he is an overflowing fountain.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

(1858)

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	But	G1161 →
Ἰησοῦς	Iēsous	Jesus	G2424 →
εἶπεν·	eipen	said;	G2036 →
ἥψατό	hēpsato	Touched	G681 →
μού	mou	Me	G3165 →
τις·	tis	someone;	G5100 →
ἐγὼ	egō	I myself	G1473 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
ἔγνων	egnōn	know	G1097 →
δύναμιν	dunamin	power	G1411 →
ἐξεληλυθυῖαν	exelēluthuian	having left	G1831 →
ἀπ᾽	ap᾽	from	G575 →
ἐμοῦ.	emou	Me.	G1473 →

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

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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
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
leads to
- Exodus 19:5–6
  Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
- Deuteronomy 7:6
  For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of…
- Revelation 1:6
  who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.
- Revelation 5:10
  You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”
- Isaiah 61:6
  But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their…
Through
Luke 6:19
The entire crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming from Him and healing them all.
leads to
- Mark 5:30
  At once Jesus was aware that power had gone out from Him. Turning to the crowd, He asked, “Who touched My garments?”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 14:36
  and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
Through
Luke 5:17
One day Jesus was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. People had come from Jerusalem and from every village of Galilee and Judea, and the power of the…
leads to
- Luke 6:19
  The entire crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming from Him and healing them all.

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Luke

Where the connections lead

The record, by era

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Luke