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Luke 8:42
Luke 8:42 is verse 42 of Luke chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
because his only daughter, who was about twelve, was dying. As Jesus went with him, the crowds pressed around Him,
King James Version
For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.
World English Bible
for he had an only born daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.
The phrase “only born” is from the Greek word “μονογενη”, which is sometimes translated “only begotten” or “one and only”.
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Luke 8:40–44 · Berean Standard Bible
40 When Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed Him, for they had all been waiting for Him.
41 Just then a synagogue leader named Jairus came and fell at Jesus’ feet. He begged Him to come to his house,
42 because his only daughter, who was about twelve, was dying. As Jesus went with him, the crowds pressed around Him,
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.
44 She came up behind Jesus and touched the fringe of His cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Luke 7:12As He approached the town gate, He saw a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.
Genesis 44:20And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
Genesis 44:21Then you told your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so that I can see him for myself.’
Genesis 44:22So we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.’
Job 1:18While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
Job 1:19when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
Zechariah 12:10Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
Job 4:20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
Psalms 90:5You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
Psalms 90:6in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;
Psalms 103:16when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.
Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
Ezekiel 24:16“Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.
Ezekiel 24:25And you, son of man, know that on the day I take away their stronghold, their pride and joy—the desire of their eyes which uplifted their souls—and their sons and daughters as well,
Romans 5:12Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
Luke 8:45“Who touched Me?” Jesus asked. But they all denied it. “Master,” said Peter, “the people are crowding and pressing against You.”
Mark 5:24So Jesus went with him, and a large crowd followed and pressed around Him.