And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
Parallel translations
- WEB A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians, and could not be healed by any,
- BSB including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.
- NKJV Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any,
- NASB And a woman who had suffered a chronic flow of blood for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone,
- NLT A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding, and she could find no cure.
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Quick answer
A woman with a twelve-year flow of blood, beyond all medical help, approaches Jesus. Her case is humanly hopeless.
Overview
Luke introduces a woman whose long illness left her ritually unclean, isolated, and bankrupt after futile treatments. Her condition made her an outcast under the law. Her desperate, faith-filled approach to Jesus contrasts with the helplessness of every other remedy.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 19
- Mark 5:25–26And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
- Matt 9:20–22And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
- Lev 15:25–33And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
- Luke 13:16And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
- Mark 9:21–22And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.
- 2 Chr 16:12And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
- Job 13:4But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
- Isa 55:1–3Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
- Luke 13:11And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.
- John 9:1And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
- Luke 8:27And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.
- Isa 2:22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
- John 9:21But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.
- Ps 108:12Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
- Acts 4:22For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
- John 5:5–6And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
- Mark 9:18And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
- Acts 3:2And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
- Acts 14:8–10And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:
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