When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.”
Parallel translations
- KJV And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
- BSB When Jesus saw her, He called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your disability.”
- ESV When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.”
- NKJV But when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, “Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.”
- NASB When Jesus saw her, He called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your sickness.”
- NLT When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Dear woman, you are healed of your sickness!”
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Cross-references · 6
- Ps 107:20He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.
- Matt 8:16When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick;
- Luke 6:8–10But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Rise up, and stand in the middle.” He arose and stood.
- Joel 3:10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’
- Luke 13:16Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”
- Isa 65:1“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.
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