Luke 8:46

Luke 8:46 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
• New International Version (NIV)But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)But Jesus said, "Someone touched me, for I perceive that power has gone out from me."
• New King James Version (NKJV)But Jesus said, “Somebody touched Me, for I perceived power going out from Me.”

Context of Luke 8:46

44She came in the crowd behind Jesus and she touched the edge of his coat. Immediately she stopped bleeding. 45Jesus asked, ‘Who touched me?’ Everyone round him said, ‘It was not me. I did not touch you.’ Then Peter said to Jesus, ‘Master, there is a big crowd round you. Many people are pushing against you.’ Jesus said, ‘Someone did touch me. I know that something powerful went out from me.’ 47The woman knew that she could not hide herself. So she was very afraid. She came to Jesus and she went down on the ground in front of him. She spoke so that all the people could hear her. She said, ‘I wanted to be well again, so I touched him. When I did that, I became well immediately.’ 48Jesus said to her, ‘Young woman, you are well again because you believed in me. Go now and have peace in your mind.’

Luke 8:46 word by word

ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν· ἥψατό μού τις· ἐγὼ γὰρ ἔγνων δύναμιν ἐξεληλυθυῖαν ἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Andδέde · thenG1161
• Jesusὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• JesusἸησοῦςIēsous · JesusG2424
• saidλέγωlegō · to sayG3004
• Somebodyτιςtis · oneG5100
• hath touchedἅπτωhaptomai · to touchG680
• meἐγώegō · I/weG1473
• forγάρgar · forG1063
• perceive thatγινώσκωginōskō · to knowG1097
• virtueδύναμιςdunamis · powerG1411
• is gone outἐξέρχομαιexerchomai · to go outG1831
• ofἀπόapo · away fromG575

Cross-references for Luke 8:46

• Luke 6:19All the people were trying to touch him, because he was using great power to make each person well.
• 1 Peter 2:9But you are not like that. You are a special group of people that God has chosen. You serve God like priests who serve a King. You are his own holy people who belong to him. He has taken you out of the dark place of sin, and he has brought you into his great light. He has done all this so that you can tell people how great he is.

Commentaries on Luke 8:46

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 46I perceive that virtue - , Divine or miraculous power. This Divine emanation did not proceed always from Christ, as necessarily as odours do from plants, for then all who touched him must have been equally partakers of it. Of the many that touched him, this woman and none else received this Divine virtue; and why? Because she came in faith. Faith alone attracts and receives the energetic influence of God at all times. There would be more miracles, at…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
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4646. Somebody hath touched--yes, the multitude "thronged" and pressed Him--"they jostled against Him," but all involuntarily; they were merely carried along; but one, one only--"Somebody Touched" Him, with the conscious, voluntary, dependent touch of faith, reaching forth its hands expressly to have contact with Him. This and this only Jesus acknowledges and seeks out. Even so, as the Church Father Augustine long ago said, multitudes still come similarly…Read the comment

Topics related to Luke 8:46

• Children
• Jairus
• Jesus, the Christ
• Miracles
• Virtue

In the dictionaries

• Jesus
• Jesus, Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus
• Choke
• Fall
• Jeopardy
• Possess
• Somebody
• Strive
• Jairus (2)
• Jesus Christ

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