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LUKE 8:47 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 8:46Luke 8:48
“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.”
Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed — the woman's trembling coming forward and falling at his feet communicates the fear and the surrender to full disclosure. In the presence of all the people: the testimony is public — the healing that began in anonymity is completed in public confession.

Church Fathers on Luke 8:47

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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