Luke 8:42 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴² for the official’s only daughter, who was about twelve years old, was dying. As Jesus was going, large crowds pressed in on Him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴² For he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. As [Jesus] went, the people pressed together around Him [almost suffocating Him].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴² for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went the multitudes thronged him.

Common English Bible

⁴² because his only daughter, a twelve-year-old, was dying. As Jesus moved forward, he faced smothering crowds.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴² For he had an only daughter, nearly twelve years old, and she was dying. And it happened that, as he was going there, he was hemmed in by the crowd.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴² For he had an only daughter, almost twelve years old, and she was dying. And it happened as he went, that he was thronged by the multitudes.

Luke 8:42 Cross References

Mark 5:24

So, Jesus went along with the man, and was being thronged by a large crowd that followed Him.

Luke 7:12

Now when He approached the town gate, He saw a dead man being carried out; it was the only son of his widowed mother. And many people from the town were with her.

Luke 8:41

And just then an official of the [Jewish] synagogue named Jairus came to Him and fell at His feet [i.e., worshiping. See Matt. 9:18] and begged Him to go to his house,

Luke 8:43

Then a woman, who had been bleeding for twelve years, and who had spent all her income on doctors without being healed by any of them,

Luke 8:45

Jesus said, “Who touched me?” And when everyone denied [doing it], Peter and the disciples said, “Master, many people are pressing in on you and crowding you.”

Romans 5:12

For even before the Law of Moses, sin was [being committed] in the world. But man is not responsible for [his] sin when there is no law.