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Luke 8:43

  • Matthew 5:22
  • Matthew 5:44
  • Matthew 6:13
  • Matthew 16:2b–3
  • Matthew 20:16
  • Matthew 20:22, 23
  • Matthew 25:13
  • Matthew 27:16, 17
  • Matthew 27:35
  • Mark 9:49
  • Mark 10:7
  • Mark 10:21
  • Mark 10:24
  • Mark 14:68
  • Luke 4:4
  • Luke 8:43
  • Luke 9:54-56
  • Luke 11:2–4
  • Luke 11:11
  • Luke 22:43–44
  • Luke 24:42
  • Acts 28:16
  • Rom 16:25–27
  • 1 Corinthians 11:24
  • Ephesians 1:1
  • Conclusion

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

NIV: And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding* for twelve years, but no one could heal her — with a footnote, “Many manuscripts years, and she had spent all she had on doctors.”

ESV: And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her living on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone.

CSB: A woman suffering from bleeding for twelve years, who had spent all she had on doctors and yet could not be healed by any.

NASB: And a woman who had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone.

NET: Now a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years* but could not be healed by anyone — with a footnote, “having spent all her money on doctors.”

External evidence

The manuscript evidence favors the omission of the phrase (B D P75).

Internal evidence

It is included in the parallel Mark 5:26.

UBS gives the inclusion of the words a C rating.

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