Luke 8:43

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.”

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BSBPD

“including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, who had spent all her living upon physicians, and could not be healed of any,”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and a woman, having an issue of blood for twelve years, who, having spent on physicians all her living, was not able to be healed by any,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Luke 8:43 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 15:25When a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days at a time other than her menstrual period, or if it continues beyond her period, she will be unclean all the days of her unclean discharge, just as she is during the days of her menstruation.
  2. 2 Chronicles 16:12In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his malady became increasingly severe. Yet even in his illness he did not seek the LORD, but only the physicians.
  3. Job 13:4You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
  4. Psalms 108:12Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.
  5. Isaiah 2:22Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
  6. Isaiah 55:1“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
  7. Matthew 9:20Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.
  8. Mark 5:25And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years.
  9. Mark 9:18Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked Your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable.”
  10. Mark 9:21Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been with him?” “From childhood,” he said.
  11. Luke 8:27When Jesus stepped ashore, He was met by a demon-possessed man from the town. For a long time this man had not worn clothing or lived in a house, but he stayed in the tombs.
  12. Luke 13:11and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.
  13. Luke 13:16Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”
  14. John 5:5One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
  15. John 9:1Now as Jesus was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth,
  16. John 9:21But how he can now see or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”
  17. Acts 3:2And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.
  18. Acts 4:22For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.
  19. Acts 14:8In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.

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