New English Translation
Mark 5:27
27When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak,
Mark 5:27 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.
- New International Version (NIV)When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak,
- English Standard Version (ESV)She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment.
- New King James Version (NKJV)When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment.
Context of Mark 5:27
25Now a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years. 26She had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28for she kept saying, “If only I touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 29At once the bleeding stopped, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.
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ἀκούσασα περὶ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, ἐλθοῦσα ἐν τῷ ὄχλῳ ὄπισθεν ἥψατο τοῦ ἱματίου αὐτοῦ·Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- When she had heardἀκούωakouō · to hearG191
- ofπερίperi · aboutG4012
- Jesusὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- JesusἸησοῦςIēsous · JesusG2424
- cameἔρχομαιerchomai · to come/goG2064
- inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
- the pressὄχλοςochlos · crowdG3793
- behindὄπισθενopisthen · afterG3693
- and touchedἅπτωhaptomai · to touchG680
- hisαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
- garmentἱμάτιονhimation · clothingG2440
Cross-references for Mark 5:27
- Mark 6:56And wherever he would go – into villages, towns, or countryside – they would place the sick in the marketplaces, and would ask him if they could just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.
- 2 Kings 13:21One day some men were burying a man when they spotted a raiding party. So they threw the dead man into Elisha’s tomb. When the body touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man came to life and stood on his feet.
- Matthew 14:36They begged him if they could only touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.
- Acts 5:15Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets, and put them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow would fall on some of them.
- Acts 19:12so that when even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his body were brought to the sick, their diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.
Commentaries on Mark 5:27
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 27Came in the press behind - She had formed her resolution in faith, she executes it, notwithstanding her weakness, etc., with courage; and now she finds it crowned with success.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22-43Verses 22-43 See the account of the raising of Jairus‘ daughter, and the healing of the woman with an issue of blood, fully explained in the notes at Matthew 9:18-26. Mark 5:23 Lieth at the point of death - Is dying; in the last agonies. Mark 5:26 Had suffered many things - Had resorted to many things painful, by the direction of the physicians, in order to be healed. Mark 5:27 Came in the press behind - In the crowd that pressed upon him. This was done…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 21-34Verses 21-34 A despised gospel will go where it will be better received. One of the rulers of a synagogue earnestly besought Christ for a little daughter, about twelve years old, who was dying. Another cure was wrought by the way. We should do good, not only when in the house, but when we walk by the way, De 6:7. It is common with people not to apply to Christ till they have tried in vain all other helpers, and find them, as certainly they will…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 27-29The woman's faith led her to believe that touching the clothing that Jesus was wearing would heal her, and it happened right away (5:34).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2727. When she had heard of Jesus, came--This was the right experiment at last. What had she "heard of Jesus?" No doubt it was His marvellous cures she had heard of; and the hearing of these, in connection with her bitter experience of the vanity of applying to any other, had been blessed to the kindling in her soul of a firm confidence that He who had so willingly wrought such cures on others was able and would not refuse to heal her also. in the press…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Mark 5
- 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
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