Mark 5:27 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 5:27

When the woman heard about Jesus, she came up through the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

having heard the things concerning Jesus, came in the crowd behind, and touched his garment.

KJV

When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.

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Commentary

1 voice

Jerome

HOMILY 33 (420)

The woman with the hemorrhage had spent all that she had on doctors. Hungering and thirsting, her spirit had died within her. Having lost everything she possessed, because her life was wasting away within her, she cried out to the Lord in anguish. Her touch on the hem of his garment was the cry of a believing heart. In this she is the figure of the assembly of God gathered from all nations.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 827: “The Faculty Baffled, The Great Physician Successful” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1868)

BRIEFLY consider this poor woman's case. She was afflicted with a disease of exceedingly long standing which not only wasted her strength and threatened to bring her speedily to the grave, but rendered her, according to the Jewish ceremonial Law, unclean, and therefore unable to mix in company. Thus she was doomed to be a poor, suffering, desponding, desolate woman. The physicians of those days were bold enough to attempt impossible cures, but their skill was not at all commensurate with their courage. They tormented their patients, but seldom relieved them of anything but their money.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

But there was an instinct in the faith which brought her to Jesus, which taught her, that if that touch could set her free from the defiling disease itself, it was impossible to communicate defilement to Him, and that this wondrous Healer must be above such laws.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἀκούσασα	akousasa	having heard	G191 →
περὶ	peri	concerning	G4012 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰησοῦ,	Iēsou	Jesus,	G2424 →
ἐλθοῦσα	elthousa	having come up	G2064 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
ὄχλῳ	ochlō	crowd	G3793 →
ὄπισθεν	opisthen	behind [Him]	G3693 →
ἥψατο	hēpsato	she touched	G681 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
ἱματίου	himatiou	clothing	G2440 →
αὐτοῦ·	autou	of Him;	G846 →

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
Acts 19:12
so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and the diseases and evil spirits left them.
leads to
- Acts 5:15
  As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Kings 13:20–21
  And Elisha died and was buried. Now the Moabite raiders used to come into the land every spring.
- Mark 16:17
  And these signs will accompany those who believe: In My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
Through
Acts 5:15
As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.
leads to
- Acts 19:11–12
  God did extraordinary miracles through the hands of Paul,
  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
Mark 6:56
And wherever He went—villages and towns and countrysides—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
leads to
- Luke 6:19
  The entire crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming from Him and healing them all.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Mark 3:10
  For He had healed so many that all who had diseases were pressing forward to touch Him.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
2 Kings 13:21
Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders, so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. And as soon as his body touched the bones of…
leads to
- Acts 19:12
  so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and the diseases and evil spirits left them.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Mark

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Mark