Luke 8 · Verse 46

Luke 8:46

And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
Luke 8:46, King James Version

Luke 8:46 in other translations

BSBBut Jesus declared, “Someone touched Me, for I know that power has gone out from Me.”
WEBBut Jesus said, “Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me.”
ASVBut Jesus said, Some one did touch me; for I perceived that power had gone forth from me.
YLTAnd Jesus said, ‘Some one did touch me, for I knew power having gone forth from me.'
DARBYAnd Jesus said, Some one has touched me, for I have known that power has gone out from me.
BBEBut Jesus said, Someone was touching me, for I had the feeling that power had gone out from me.
WebsterAnd Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue hath gone out of me.

What does Luke 8:46 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
46. Somebody hath touched--yes, the multitude "thronged" and pressed Him--"they jostled against Him," but all involuntarily; they were merely carried along; but one, one only--"Somebody Touched" Him, with the conscious, voluntary, dependent touch of faith, reaching forth its hands expressly to have contact with Him. This and this only Jesus acknowledges and seeks out. Even so, as the Church Father Augustine long ago said, multitudes still come similarly close to Christ in the means of grace, but all to no purpose, being only sucked into the crowd. The voluntary, living contact of faith is that electric conductor which alone draws virtue out of Him.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 46 I perceive that virtue - Δυναμιν, Divine or miraculous power. This Divine emanation did not proceed always from Christ, as necessarily as odours do from plants, for then all who touched him must have been equally partakers of it. Of the many that touched him, this woman and none else received this Divine virtue; and why? Because she came in faith. Faith alone attracts and receives the energetic influence of God at all times. There would be more miracles, at least of spiritual healing, were there more faith among those who are called believers.

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…

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Luke 8:46 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ὁho<the>G3588
δὲdeButG1161
ἸησοῦςIēsousJesusG2424
εἶπεν·eipensaid;G2036
ἥψατόhēpsatoTouchedG681
μούmouMeG3165
τις·tissomeone;G5100
ἐγὼegōI myselfG1473
γὰρgarforG1063
ἔγνωνegnōnknowG1097
δύναμινdunaminpowerG1411
ἐξεληλυθυῖανexelēluthuianhaving leftG1831
ἀπ᾽ap᾽fromG575
ἐμοῦ.emouMe.G1473

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Luke 8:46

  • Luke 6:19

    And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.

  • Luke 5:17

    And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.

  • 1 Peter 2:9

    But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

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Context

  • 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?

  • Luke 8:46

    And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.

  • Luke 8:47

    And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

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Luke 8:46 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y Jesús dijo: Me ha tocado alguien; porque yo he conocido que ha salido virtud de mí.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Jésus dit: Quelqu’un m’a touché, car je sais qu’il est sorti de moi de la puissance.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Jesus aber sprach: Es hat mich jemand angerührt; denn ich habe erkannt, daß Kraft von mir ausgegangen ist.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et dicit Jesus: Tetigit me aliquis: nam ego novi virtutem de me exiisse.