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Jesus Heals the Multitudes

Luke 6:19

In 9 translations

BSB
The entire crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming from Him and healing them all.
KJV
And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
WEB
All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all.
ASV
And all the multitude sought to touch him; for power came forth from him, and healed them all.
LSV
And all the multitude were seeking to touch Him, because power was going forth from Him, and He was healing all.
YLT
and all the multitude were seeking to touch him, because power from him was going forth, and he was healing all.
DBY
And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power went out from him and healed all.
DRC
And all the multitude sought to touch him, for virtue went out from him, and healed all.
GNV
And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went vertue out of him, and healed them all.

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Where the editions differ

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ἐζήτουν (“were seeking”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ἐζήτει (“he was seeking”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

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  • SBLGNT: ἐζήτουν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἐζήτουν; Robinson–Pierpont read ἐζήτει.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
καὶ πᾶς ὁ ὄχλος ἐζήτουν ἅπτεσθαι αὐτοῦ, ὅτι δύναμις παρʼ αὐτοῦ ἐξήρχετο καὶ ἰᾶτο πάντας.
RP2018
Καὶ πᾶς ὁ ὄχλος ἐζήτει ἅπτεσθαι αὐτοῦ· ὅτι δύναμις παρ’ αὐτοῦ ἐξήρχετο καὶ ἰᾶτο πάντας.
TR-Boyd
Καὶ πᾶς ὁ ὄχλος ἐζήτει ἅπτεσθαι αὐτοῦ· ὅτι δύναμις παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἐξήρχετο καὶ ἰᾶτο πάντας.
SCR1894
και πας ο οχλος εζητει απτεσθαι αυτου οτι δυναμις παρ αυτου εξηρχετο και ιατο παντας

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◆ Healing Multitudes

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Matthew 14:36and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
  • Mark 3:10For He had healed so many that all who had diseases were pressing forward to touch Him.
  • Acts 5:15–16As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. Crowds also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem,…
  • Mark 6:56And wherever He went—villages and towns and countrysides—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
  • Mark 5:30At once Jesus was aware that power had gone out from Him. Turning to the crowd, He asked, “Who touched My garments?”
  • Matthew 9:20–21Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak. She said to herself, “If only I touch His cloak, I will be healed.”
  • 1 Peter 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
  • Luke 8:45–46“Who touched Me?” Jesus asked. But they all denied it. “Master,” said Peter, “the people are crowding and pressing against You.” But Jesus declared, “Someone touched Me, for I know that power has gone out from Me.”
  • 2 Kings 13:21Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders, so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. And as soon as his body touched the bones of Elisha, the man was revived and stood up on…
  • Mark 8:22When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.
  • Luke 5:17One day Jesus was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. People had come from Jerusalem and from every village of Galilee and Judea, and the power of the Lord was present for Him to…
  • Acts 19:12so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and the diseases and evil spirits left them.
  • John 3:14–15Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
  • Numbers 21:8–9Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.” So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at…

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