Luke 8:43 — Community Reflections

LUKE 8:43 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,”

And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her — the woman who has bled for twelve years (the same age as Jairus's daughter) cannot be healed by anyone. Luke the physician omits the detail about suffering under many doctors and growing worse (Mark 5:26) — perhaps professional courtesy.

Church Fathers on Luke 8:43

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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