Bible Strands
Mark 3:10
For He had healed so many that all who had diseases were pressing forward to touch Him.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator addresses the reader at a moment when Jesus’ healing ministry has drawn such a large crowd that He orders a boat to prevent being crushed.
The words — ὥστε (hōste) means "so as for," and ἐπιπίπτειν (epipiptein) means "to press upon," establishing the direct causal link between His prior healings and the crowd’s physical desperation.
The thread — Matthew 14:36, Mark 6:56, and Matthew 4:23 record the same pattern of crowds pressing to touch Jesus for healing across Galilee and surrounding regions.
Why it lands — The text states a factual consequence of Jesus’ healing activity that demands recognition of His power and the practical need for crowd management, asking readers to observe how divine action naturally draws desperate human response.
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The Greek words
King James Version
For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.
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 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.
- Matthew 4:23 Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
- Acts 19:11 God did extraordinary miracles through the hands of Paul,
- Luke 7:2 There a highly valued servant of a centurion was sick and about to die.
- 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.
- Genesis 12:17 The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
- Numbers 11:33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague.
- 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.
- Matthew 12:15 Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. Large crowds followed Him, and He healed them all,