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Luke 8:42

Luke 8:42
For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years,.... The Persic version reads, "there was a woman in that city", &c. in the city of Capernaum; See Gill on Mat 9:20.

Which had spent all her living…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

The people thronged him - Συνεπνιγον αυτον - almost suffocated him - so great was the throng about him.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Luke 8:40-56

Christ was driven away by the Gadarenes; they were weary of him, and willing to be rid of him. But when he had crossed the water, and returned to the Galileans, they gladly received him, wished and…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

one only daughter St Luke, whose keen sympathies are everywhere observable in his Gospel, mentions the same touching fact in the case of the son of the widow of Nain (Luk 7:12), and the lunatic boy…