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All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came forth from him, and healed them all.
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Jesus, the Source of Power
Commentators emphasize that healing power wasn't just something Jesus performed, but something that continuously flowed from him. Scholars note the Greek tense suggests power was constantly 'coming out from him.' This 'virtue,' as Luke calls it, healed all it touched, showing Jesus as the inexhaustible source of divine power, not merely a channel.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Virtue Healing power.
See Barnes on Mark 5:30.
there went virtue out of him (Mark 5:30; [Reference Luke 8…
Sought to touch him (εζητουν απτεσθα αυτου). Imperfect active. One can see the surging, eager crowd pressing up to Jesus. Probably…
19th Century
Anglican
There went virtue out of him.—The use of the term “virtue” (or power) in this technical sense is peculiar to Sa…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the whole multitude sought to touch him That is, the multitude of those that were sick and possessed; for they w…
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