Mark 5:26 (BSB)
She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse.
Commentary on Mark 5:26
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Mark 5:21-34: The Gadarenes having desired Christ to leave their country, he did not stay to trouble them long, but presently went by water, as he came, back to the other side (Mar 5:21), and there much people gathered to him. Note, If there be some that reject Christ, yet there are others that receive him, and bid him welcome.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Mark 5:26: And had suffered many things of many physicians,.... She took many a nauseous medicine, and had gone through courses of physic with different physicians; for there were many among the Jews that pretended to the cure of fluxes; and various are the prescriptions the Jewish doctors give for such a disorder, as may be seen in their Talmud (q); and many of which Dr.
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Mark 5:26: Verse 26. Had suffered many things. Had resorted to many things painful, by the direction of the physicians, in order to be healed. (h) "nothing bettered"
- Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on Mark 5:26: Had suffered many things of many physicians, - and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse - No person will wonder at this account, when he considers the therapeutics of the Jewish physicians in reference to hemorrhages, especially of the kind with which this woman was afflicted.