Luke 8:42 — Community Reflections

LUKE 8:42 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.”

Because his only daughter, a girl of about twelve, was dying. As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him — his only daughter (thygater monogenēs autō, only-begotten daughter) who is about twelve and dying — the detail of being the only child intensifies the urgency and the father's grief. The crowds almost crushing Jesus communicates the logistical challenge of the journey — the same crowd that provides the context for the next healing.

Church Fathers on Luke 8:42

After relating the miracle of the Gadarenes, Luke goes on to relate that of the ruler of the synagogue’s daughter; saying, And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.
Augustine · 4th century

At once both because of His teaching, and His miracles.
Theophylact · 11th century

The name is inserted for the sake of the Jews, who ho at that time well knew the event, that the name might be a demonstrative proof of the miracle. And there came not one of the lowest, but a ruler of the synagogue, that the mouths of the Jews might be the more closed. As it follows, And he was a ruler of the synagogue. Now he came to Christ because of his need; for grief sometimes urges us to do those things which are right, according to the Psalm, Hold their mouths with…
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