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Mark 5:27

When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.

KJV

ἀκούσασα τὰ περὶ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, ἐλθοῦσα ἐν τῷ ὄχλῳ ὄπισθεν ἥψατο τοῦ ἱματίου αὐτοῦ·

Greek NT

cum audisset de Jesu, venit in turba retro, et tetigit vestimentum ejus :

Vulgate

having heard the things concerning Jesus, came in the crowd behind, and touched his garment.

ASV

When she had heard of Jesus, came in the crowd behind him, and touched his garment.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
περί
peri
preposition · 335×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ἅπτομαι
aptomai
verb · 35×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
ἱμάτιον
imation
noun · 59×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
o
article · 19778×
ὄπισθεν
opisthen
adverb · 7×
ὄχλος
ochlos
noun · 173×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: ἀκούσασα | Treg/NIV/RP: ἀκούσασα | WH: + τὰ
  • ἀκούσασαSBLGNT
  • ἀκούσασαTregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
  • + τὰWestcott-Hort
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§548The signs worked by Jesus attest that the Father has sent him. They invite belief in him.269 To those who turn to him in faith, he grants what they ask.270 So miracles strengthen faith in the One who does his Father's works; they bear witness that he is the Son of God.271 But his miracles can also be occasions for "offence";272 they are not intended to satisfy people's curiosit…
§994But there is more. Jesus links faith in the resurrection to his own person: "I am the Resurrection and the life."542 It is Jesus himself who on the last day will raise up those who have believed in him, who have eaten his body and drunk his blood.543 Already now in this present life he gives a sign and pledge of this by restoring some of the dead to life,544 announcing thereby …

Cross-references

  • 2Kgs 13:21 — And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Eli
  • Acts 5:15 — Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
  • Acts 19:12 — So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
  • Luke 8:44 — Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
  • Mark 6:56 — And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as t
  • Mark 6:56 — And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as t
  • Mark 8:22 — And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
  • Matt 14:36 — And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.