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LUKE 8:46 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 8:45Luke 8:47
“And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.”
But Jesus said, someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me — Jesus' awareness of the power going out distinguishes the intentional faith-contact from the accidental crowd-pressing. Power has gone out from me (exelēlythuian dynastin ap' emou): the present-perfect communicates the continuing effect — the power that went out has produced a healing that is still in effect.

Church Fathers on Luke 8:46

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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