Luke 8:42

Luke 8:42 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.
• New International Version (NIV)because his only daughter, a girl of about twelve, was dying. As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him.
• English Standard Version (ESV)for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. As Jesus went, the people pressed around him.
• New King James Version (NKJV)for he had an only daughter about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as He went, the multitudes thronged Him.

Context of Luke 8:42

40When Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed him, for they were all expecting him. 41Just then, a man named Jairus came. He was a leader of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’s feet and pleaded with him to come to his house, because he had an only daughter about twelve years old, and she was dying. While he was going, the crowds were nearly crushing him. 43A woman suffering from bleeding for twelve years, who had spent all she had on doctors and yet could not be healed by any, 44approached from behind and touched the end of his robe. Instantly her bleeding stopped.

Luke 8:42 word by word

ὅτι θυγάτηρ μονογενὴς ἦν αὐτῷ ὡς ἐτῶν δώδεκα καὶ αὐτὴ ἀπέθνῃσκεν. ἐν δὲ τῷ ὑπάγειν αὐτὸν οἱ ὄχλοι συνέπνιγον αὐτόν.¶Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Forὅτιhoti · that/since: sinceG3754
• heαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• hadεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• one onlyμονογενήςmonogenēs · uniqueG3439
• daughterθυγάτηρthugatēr · daughterG2364
• aboutὡςhōs · as/whenG5613
• twelveδώδεκαdōdeka · twelveG1427
• years of ageἔτοςetos · yearG2094
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• sheοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778
• lay a dyingἀποθνήσκωapothnēskō · to dieG599
• Butδέde · thenG1161
• asἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• wentὑπάγωhupagō · to goG5217
• the peopleὄχλοςochlos · crowdG3793
• throngedσυμπνίγωsumpnigō · to chokeG4846

Cross-references for Luke 8:42

• Luke 7:12Just as he neared the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the town was also with her.
• Genesis 44:20and we answered my lord, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
• Job 1:18He was still speaking when another messenger came and reported, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house.
• Zechariah 12:10“Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at me whom they pierced. They will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for him as one weeps for a firstborn.
• Job 4:20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; they perish forever while no one notices.
• Psalms 90:5You end their lives; they sleep. They are like grass that grows in the morning —
• Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are like grass — he blooms like a flower of the field;
• Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for anyone in life, in the few days of his futile life that he spends like a shadow? Who can tell anyone what will happen after him under the sun?
• Ezekiel 24:16“Son of man, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a fatal blow. But you must not lament or weep or let your tears flow.
• Romans 5:12Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all people, because all sinned.
• Luke 8:45“Who touched me?” Jesus asked. When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the crowds are hemming you in and pressing against you.”
• Mark 5:24So Jesus went with him, and a large crowd was following and pressing against him.

Commentaries on Luke 8:42

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 42The people thronged him - - almost suffocated him - so great was the throng about him.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 40-56Verses 40-56 See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 9:18-26, and Mark 5:21-43.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 41-56Verses 41-56 Let us not complain of a crowd, and a throng, and a hurry, as long as we are in the way of our duty, and doing good; but otherwise every wise man will keep himself out of it as much as he can. And many a poor soul is healed, and helped, and saved by Christ, that is hidden in a crowd, and nobody notices it. This woman came trembling, yet her faith saved her. There may be trembling, where yet there is saving faith. Observe Christ's comfortable…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 40-56These two accounts of healing show that Jesus has authority over disease and death. They also show the power of faith.Read the comment

Topics related to Luke 8:42

• Children
• Jairus
• Jesus, the Christ
• Miracles

In the dictionaries

• Choke
• Fall
• Jeopardy
• Possess
• Somebody
• Strive
• Jairus (2)
• Jesus Christ
• Luke, the Gospel of
• Only Begotten

Commentaries on Luke 8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings