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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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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771

And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years,.... The Persic version reads, "there was a woman in that city", &c.…

Adam ClarkeMethodist theologian, 1762–1832

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

Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Luke 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…

Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921

one only daughter St Luke, whose keen sympathies are everywhere observable in his Gospel, mentions the same touching…