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Selected Verse: Mark 5:31 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Mr 5:31	Strong Concordance	And [2532] his [846] disciples [3101] said [3004] unto him [846], Thou seest [991] the multitude [3793] thronging [4918] thee [4571], and [2532] sayest thou [3004], Who [5101] touched [680] me [3450]?
	King James	And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
And his disciples said unto him--Luke says (Luk 8:45), "When all denied, Peter and they that were with Him said, Master." Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?--"Askest thou, Lord, who touched Thee? Rather ask who touched Thee not in such a throng." "And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched Me"--"a certain person has touched Me"--"for I perceive that virtue is gone out of Me" (Luk 8:46). Yes, the multitude "thronged and pressed Him"--they jostled against Him, but all involuntarily; they were merely carried along; but one, one only--"a certain person--TOUCHED HIM," with the conscious, voluntary, dependent touch of faith, reaching forth its hand expressly to have contact with Him. This and this only Jesus acknowledges and seeks out. Even so, as AUGUSTINE long ago said, multitudes still come similarly close to Christ in the means of grace, but all to no purpose, being only sucked into the crowd. The voluntary, living contact of faith is that electric conductor which alone draws virtue out of Him.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

And his disciples said unto him--Luke says (Luk 8:45), "When all denied, Peter and they that were with Him said, Master."

Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?--"Askest thou, Lord, who touched Thee? Rather ask who touched Thee not in such a throng." "And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched Me"--"a certain person has touched Me"--"for I perceive that virtue is gone out of Me" (Luk 8:46). Yes, the multitude "thronged and pressed Him"--they jostled against Him, but all involuntarily; they were merely carried along; but one, one only--"a certain person--TOUCHED HIM," with the conscious, voluntary, dependent touch of faith, reaching forth its hand expressly to have contact with Him. This and this only Jesus acknowledges and seeks out. Even so, as AUGUSTINE long ago said, multitudes still come similarly close to Christ in the means of grace, but all to no purpose, being only sucked into the crowd. The voluntary, living contact of faith is that electric conductor which alone draws virtue out of Him.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Thou seest the multitude thronging then, etc. - Many touch Jesus who are not healed by him: the reason is, they do it not by faith, through a sense of their wants, and a conviction of his ability and willingness to save them. Faith conveys the virtue of Christ into the soul, and spiritual health is the immediate consequence of this received virtue.

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⁴⁶ And [1161] Jesus [2424] said [2036], Somebody [5100] hath touched [680] me [3450]: for [1063] I [1473] perceive [1097] that virtue [1411] is gone [1831] out of [575] me [1700].

⁴⁵ And [2532] Jesus [2424] said [2036], Who [5101] touched [680] me [3450]? When [1161] all [3956] denied [720], Peter [4074] and [2532] they that were with [3326] him [846] said [2036], Master [1988], the multitude [3793] throng [4912] thee [4571] and [2532] press [598] thee, and [2532] sayest [3004] thou, Who [5101] touched [680] me [3450]?