A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding.
Parallel translations
- WEB A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years,
- KJV And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
- BSB And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years.
- NKJV Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years,
- NASB A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years,
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A woman who had suffered a twelve-year flow of blood approaches Jesus.
Overview
Her chronic condition rendered her ceremonially unclean under the Law (Leviticus 15), cutting her off from worship and community. Twelve years of suffering left her desperate. Her approach to Jesus, hidden in the crowd, displays a quiet but real faith reaching for help.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Lev 15:25–27“‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period; all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period: she is unclean.
- Luke 8:43–44A 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,
- Matt 9:20–22Behold, a woman who had an issue of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment;
- Lev 15:19–20“‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
- John 5:5–6A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
- Luke 13:11Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.
- Acts 9:33–34There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.
- Acts 4:22For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
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