Luke 8:42

For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.

EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(42) About twelve years of age.—St. Luke, as with the precision of a practised writer, names the age at the beginning of the narrative, St. Mark incidentally (Mark 5:42) at its close.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:41-56 Let us not complain of a crowd, and a throng, and a hurry, as long as we are in the way of our duty, and doing good; but otherwise every wise man will keep himself out of it as much as he can. And many a poor soul is healed, and helped, and saved by Christ, that is hidden in a crowd, and nobody notices it. This woman came trembling, yet her faith saved her. There may be trembling, where yet there is saving faith. Observe Christ's comfortable words to Jairus, Fear not, believe only, and thy daughter shall be made whole. No less hard was it not to grieve for the loss of an only child, than not to fear the continuance of that grief. But in perfect faith there is no fear; the more we fear, the less we believe. The hand of Christ's grace goes with the calls of his word, to make them effectual. Christ commanded to give her meat. As babes new born, so those newly raised from sin, desire spiritual food, that they may grow thereby.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 9:18-26, and Mark 5:21-43.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

Lu 8:40-56. Jairus' Daughter Raised and Issue of Blood Healed.

(See on [1603]Mt 9:18-26; and [1604]Mr 5:21-43).

40. gladly received him, for … all waiting for him—The abundant teaching of that day (in Mt 13:1-58; and see Mr 4:36), had only whetted the people's appetite; and disappointed, as would seem, that He had left them in the evening to cross the lake, they remain hanging about the beach, having got a hint, probably through some of His disciples, that He would be back the same evening. Perhaps they witnessed at a distance the sudden calming of the tempest. Here at least they are, watching for His return, and welcoming Him to the shore. The tide of His popularity was now fast rising.

Matthew Poole's Commentary

See Poole on "Luke 8:41"

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For he had one only daughter,.... And so exceedingly dear to him:

about twelve years of age; See Gill on Matthew 9:18.

And she lay a dying, or "was near death", as the Syriac and Persic versions; or "was just ready to die", as the Ethiopic version. The Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions render it, "she was dead", or "now dead", and which agrees with Matthew 9:18. See Gill on Matthew 9:18.

but as he went; along the streets of Capernaum, from Matthew's house; where he had been entertained with his disciples, and others, and where he had a conversation with some of the Pharisees and John's disciples, to the ruler's house:

the people thronged him; such a vast multitude followed him to see the cure, that he was even crowded, and so pressed on all sides, that it was difficult to walk along.

Geneva Study Bible

For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.

EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)

Expositor's Greek Testament

Luke 8:42. μονογενὴς (as in Luke 7:12): peculiar to Lk. The name of the father, his rank, and the girl’s age (all lacking in Mt.) Lk. has in common with Mk. This feature he adds after his wont to enhance the benevolence of Jesus.—ἀπέθνησκεν, was dying. Mk.’s phrase, ἐσχάτως ἔχει, is avoided as not good Greek. In Mt. she is already dead.—συνέπνιγον, were suffocating Him; a very strong expression. Mk.’s word is sufficiently strong (συνέθλιβον, thronged), and if there was to be exaggeration we should hardly have expected it from Lk. But he uses the word to make Christ’s quick perception of the special touch from behind (Luke 8:45) the more marvellous.

Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

42. one only daughter] St Luke, whose keen sympathies are everywhere observable in his Gospel, mentions the same touching fact in the case of the son of the widow of Nain (Luke 7:12), and the lunatic boy (Luke 9:38).

she lay a dying] St Matthew says “is even now dead” Perhaps we catch in these variations an echo of the father’s despairing uncertainty.

Bengel's Gnomen

Luke 8:42. Μονογενής, one only-begotten) Ch. Luke 7:12.—V. g.]

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 42. - One only daughter. This is not the only place where the same touching detail is recorded by this evangelist. Compare the story of the widow's son at Nain (Luke 7:12), and the healing of the lunatic boy (Luke 9:38). St. Luke's Gospel owes these and many similar touches of deep true sympathy to the great loving heart of the real author of the third Gospel, Paul. Luke 8:42

Vincent's Word Studies

Thronged (συνέπνιγον)

With the idea of pressing together (σύν) upon him: stifling. The simple verb is that rendered choke, as in Luke 8:7, Luke 8:33.