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Luke 6:19
The entire crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming from Him and healing them all.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrative moment follows Jesus’ teaching and healing ministry, capturing the immediate response of the multitude that had gathered to hear Him and be cured (Luke 6:18). The entire crowd presses forward to make physical contact with Him as the scene transitions into His address to the disciples (Luke 6:20).
The words — The Greek ὄχλος (ochlos) identifies the “multitude” that actively seeks (ἐζὴτουν) to touch (ἅπτεσθαι) Him. This action is grounded by ὅτι (hoti), which states the factual cause: healing power was actively emanating from Jesus to them all.
The thread — This pattern of crowds pressing forward for tangible healing power appears in Mark 3:10, where the diseased similarly pressed to touch Him, and Matthew 14:36, where people begged to touch even the fringe of His cloak. The motif of outward-flowing divine power extending to the masses continues in Acts 5:15 through Peter’s shadow.
Why it lands — The text establishes that physical proximity to Jesus operates as a direct conduit for healing authority. It requires the reader to acknowledge that the crowd’s desperate reaching is met by an active, outward power that addresses every present need without exception.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
Cross-references
- Matthew 14:36 and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
- Mark 3:10 For He had healed so many that all who had diseases were pressing forward to touch Him.
- Acts 5:15 As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.
- Mark 6:56 And wherever He went—villages and towns and countrysides—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
- Mark 5:30 At once Jesus was aware that power had gone out from Him. Turning to the crowd, He asked, “Who touched My garments?”
- 2 Kings 13:21 Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders, so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. And as soon as his body touched the bones of Elisha, the man was revived and stood up on his feet.
- Matthew 9:20 Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.
- Mark 8:22 When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.
- Luke 8:45 “Who touched Me?” Jesus asked. But they all denied it. “Master,” said Peter, “the people are crowding and pressing against You.”
- 1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.