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The Healing Touch of Jesus

Mark 5:23

In 9 translations

BSB
and pleaded with Him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Please come and place Your hands on her, so that she will be healed and live.”
KJV
And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.
WEB
and begged him much, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live.”
ASV
and beseecheth him much, saying, My little daughter is at the point of death: I pray thee, that thou come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be made whole, and live.
LSV
and he was calling on Him much, saying, “My little daughter is at the last extremity—that having come, You may lay on her [Your] hands, so that she may be saved, and she will live”;
YLT
and he was calling upon him much, saying — 'My little daughter is at the last extremity — that having come, thou mayest lay on her [thy] hands, so that she may be saved, and she shall live;'
DBY
and he besought him much, saying, My little daughter is at extremity; [I pray] that thou shouldest come and lay thy hands upon her so that she may be healed, and may live.
DRC
And he besought him much, saying: My daughter is at the point of death, come, lay thy hand upon her, that she may be safe, and may live.
GNV
And besought him instantly, saying, My litle daughter lyeth at point of death: I pray thee that thou wouldest come and lay thine hands on her, that she may be healed, and liue.

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Where the editions differ

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  • NA28, NA27, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read παρακαλεῖ (“he begs”); Tyndale House, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read παρεκάλει (“was begging”).
  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ἵνα (“so that”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ὅπως (“so that”).
  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ζήσῃ.¶ (“she may live”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ζήσεται (“she will live”).
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
  • Word order: Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place αὐτῇ elsewhere in this verse.
SBLGNT apparatus (4)

A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.

  • SBLGNT: παρακαλεῖ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read παρακαλεῖ; Robinson–Pierpont read παρεκάλει.
  • SBLGNT: τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῇ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῇ; Robinson–Pierpont read αὐτῇ τὰς χεῖρας.
  • SBLGNT: ἵνα. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἵνα; Robinson–Pierpont read ὅπως.
  • SBLGNT: ζήσῃ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ζήσῃ; Robinson–Pierpont read ζήσεται.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
καὶ παρακαλεῖ αὐτὸν πολλὰ λέγων ὅτι Τὸ θυγάτριόν μου ἐσχάτως ἔχει, ἵνα ἐλθὼν ἐπιθῇς τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῇ ἵνα σωθῇ καὶ ζήσῃ.
RP2018
καὶ παρεκάλει αὐτὸν πολλά, λέγων ὅτι Τὸ θυγάτριόν μου ἐσχάτως ἔχει· ἵνα ἐλθὼν ἐπιθῇς αὐτῇ τὰς χεῖρας, ὅπως σωθῇ καὶ ζήσεται.
TR-Boyd
καὶ παρεκάλει αὐτὸν πολλά, λέγων ὅτι Τὸ θυγάτριόν μου ἐσχάτως ἔχει· ἵνα ἐλθὼν ἐπιθῇς αὐτῇ τὰς χεῖρας, ὅπως σωθῇ καὶ ζήσεται.
SCR1894
και παρεκαλει αυτον πολλα λεγων οτι το θυγατριον μου εσχατως εχει ινα ελθων επιθης αυτη τας χειρας οπως σωθη και ζησεται

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Luke 13:13Then He placed His hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and began to glorify God.
  • Mark 16:18they will pick up snakes with their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will be made well.”
  • Luke 4:40At sunset, all who were ill with various diseases were brought to Jesus, and laying His hands on each one, He healed them.
  • Mark 7:32Some people brought to Him a man who was deaf and hardly able to speak, and they begged Jesus to place His hand on him.
  • Acts 28:8The father of Publius was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him, and after praying and placing his hands on him, he healed the man.
  • James 5:14–15Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise…
  • Psalms 107:19Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.
  • 2 Kings 5:11But Naaman went away angry, saying, “I thought that he would surely come out, stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the spot to cure my leprosy.
  • Luke 4:38After Jesus had left the synagogue, He went to the home of Simon, whose mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever. So they appealed to Jesus on her behalf,
  • Matthew 8:3Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
  • Mark 6:5–6So He could not perform any miracles there, except to lay His hands on a few of the sick and heal them. And He was amazed at their unbelief. And He went around from village to village, teaching the people.
  • Mark 9:21–22Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been with him?” “From childhood,” he said. “It often throws him into the fire or into the water, trying to kill him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us…
  • Psalms 50:15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
  • Mark 8:23So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. Then He spit on the man’s eyes and placed His hands on him. “Can you see anything?” He asked.
  • 2 Samuel 12:15–16After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill. David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in…
  • Luke 7:2–3There a highly valued servant of a centurion was sick and about to die. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to ask Him to come and heal his servant.

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