Luke 8:42-48

EasyEnglish Bible

⁴² I have one daughter. She is 12 years old and she is very ill. She will die very soon.’

So Jesus went along. A crowd of people went with him. They were pushing against him. ⁴³ There was a sick woman in the crowd who had lost blood for 12 years. She had paid all her money to doctors and now she had no money. But nobody could help her to become well again. ⁴⁴ She came in the crowd behind Jesus and she touched the edge of his coat. Immediately she stopped bleeding. ⁴⁵ Jesus asked, ‘Who touched me?’

Everyone round him said, ‘It was not me. I did not touch you.’ Then Peter said to Jesus, ‘Master, there is a big crowd round you. Many people are pushing against you.’

⁴⁶ Jesus said, ‘Someone did touch me. I know that something powerful went out from me.’ ⁴⁷ The woman knew that she could not hide herself. So she was very afraid. She came to Jesus and she went down on the ground in front of him. She spoke so that all the people could hear her. She said, ‘I wanted to be well again, so I touched him. When I did that, I became well immediately.’ ⁴⁸ Jesus said to her, ‘Young woman, you are well again because you believed in me. Go now and have peace in your mind.’^[a]