Luke 8:43

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

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Study note

Setting — The narrator describes the crowd pressing around Jesus as He travels to Jairus’ house, introducing a woman caught in that same movement. She appears within the narrative moment just before Jesus’ healing power is displayed.

The words — The Greek ῥύσει αἵματος (rhusei haimatos) literally means “a flux of blood,” denoting a chronic hemorrhage.

The thread — This account parallels Mark 5:25 and Matthew 9:20, while Leviticus 15:25 establishes the ritual impurity category for such a discharge.

Why it lands — The text states that twelve years of medical treatment yielded no cure and exhausted her resources. It asks the reader to recognize the limits of human intervention before the narrative shifts to divine action.

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The Greek words

King James Version

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

Cross-references

Mark 5:25 And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years.
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.
Leviticus 15:25 When 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.
Luke 13:16 Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”
2 Chronicles 16:12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his disease became increasingly severe. Yet even in his illness he did not seek the LORD, but only the physicians.
Mark 9:21 Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been with him?” “From childhood,” he said.
Job 13:4 You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
Isaiah 2:22 Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
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!
Luke 8:27 When 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.