Mark 5:25
23 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.”
24 So Jesus went with him, and a large crowd followed and pressed around Him.
And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years.
26 She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse.
27 When the woman heard about Jesus, she came up through the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years.
- KJV
- And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
- WEB
- A certain woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years,
- ASV
- And a woman, who had an issue of blood twelve years,
- DARBY
- And a certain woman who had had a flux of blood twelve years,
- BLB
- And a woman, being with a flow of blood twelve years,
- ÅB
- Og der var en kvinne som hadde hatt blodsott i tolv år;
- OTB
- Og det var en kvinne som hadde lidd av blødninger i tolv år.
- B1930
- Og der var en kvinne som hadde hatt blodsott i tolv år;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Leviticus 15:25–27
When a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days at a time other than her menstrual period, or if it continues beyond her period, she will be unclean all the days of her unclean discharge, just as she is during the days of her menstruation.
Read in contextLuke 8:43–44
including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.
Read in contextMatthew 9:20–22
Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.
Read in contextLeviticus 15:19–20
When a woman has a discharge consisting of blood from her body, she will be unclean due to her menstruation for seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.
Read in contextJohn 5:5–6
One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
Read in contextLuke 13:11
and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.
Read in contextActs 4:22
For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.
Read in contextActs 9:33–34
There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.
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