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.
Luke 8:42 in other translations
| BSB | because his only daughter, who was about twelve, was dying. As Jesus went with him, the crowds pressed around Him, |
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| WEB | for he had an only born daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him. |
| ASV | for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went the multitudes thronged him. |
| YLT | because he had an only daughter about twelve years old, and she was dying. And in his going away, the multitudes were thronging him, |
| DARBY | because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. And as he went the crowds thronged him. |
| BBE | For he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was near to death. But while he was on his way, the people were pushing to be near him. |
| Webster | For he had one daughter only, about twelve years of age, and she lay dying. (But as he was going, the people thronged him. |
What does Luke 8:42 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 8:41-56
Let us not complain of a crowd, and a throng, and a hurry, as long as we are in the way of our duty, and doing good; but otherwise every wise man will keep himself out of it as much as he can. And many a poor soul is healed, and helped, and saved by Christ, that is hidden in a crowd, and nobody notices it. This woman came trembling, yet her faith saved her. There may be trembling, where yet there is saving faith…
Luke 8:42 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Luke 8:42
- Luke 7:12
Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
- Mark 5:24
And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him.
- Luke 8:45
And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
- Ezekiel 24:16
Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
- Psalms 90:5-8
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
- Ezekiel 24:25
Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
- Genesis 44:20-22
And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
- Psalms 103:15-16
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
- Job 4:20
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
- Job 1:18-19
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house: And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
- Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
- Romans 5:12
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
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- Luke 8:41
And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus’ feet, and besought him that he would come into his house:
- 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.
- Luke 8:43
And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
Luke 8:42 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque tenía una hija única, como de doce años, y ella se estaba muriendo. Y yendo, le apretaba la compañía. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | car il avait une fille unique, d’environ douze ans, et elle se mourait. Et comme il s’en allait, les foules le serraient. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | denn er hatte eine eingeborene Tochter von etwa zwölf Jahren, und diese lag im Sterben. Indem er aber hinging, drängte ihn die Volksmenge. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | quia unica filia erat ei fere annorum duodecim, et hæc moriebatur. Et contigit, dum iret, a turba comprimebatur. |