The entire crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming from Him and healing them all.
Parallel translations
- WEB All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all.
- KJV And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
- NKJV And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all.
- NASB And all the people were trying to touch Him, because power was coming from Him and healing them all.
- NLT Everyone tried to touch him, because healing power went out from him, and he healed everyone.
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Quick answer
The crowd seeks to touch Jesus because healing power flows from him. His person is the source of divine restoring power.
Overview
Luke reports that power went out from Jesus and healed everyone, so the crowd presses to touch him. The detail underscores that the healing flows from his own divine power, not from ritual or technique. It reveals Christ as the abundant source of God's mercy toward the afflicted.
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Cross-references · 14
- Matt 14:36and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
- Mark 3:10For He had healed so many that all who had diseases were pressing forward to touch Him.
- Acts 5:15–16As 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.
- Mark 5:30At once Jesus was aware that power had gone out from Him. Turning to the crowd, He asked, “Who touched My garments?”
- Mark 6:56And 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.
- Matt 9:20–21Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.
- Mark 8:22When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.
- 1 Pet 2:9But 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.
- Luke 8:45–46“Who touched Me?” Jesus asked. But they all denied it. “Master,” said Peter, “the people are crowding and pressing against You.”
- Acts 19:12so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and the diseases and evil spirits left them.
- Luke 5:17One 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 Lord was present for Him to heal the sick.
- 2 Kgs 13:21Once, 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 Elisha, the man was revived and stood up on his feet.
- John 3:14–15Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
- Num 21:8–9Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.”
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Luke shows Jesus the Savior for all — outsiders, the poor, the nations — the one who, on the Emmaus road, opened all the Scriptures to show they were about himself.
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