Luke 6:19 (LSB)

Passage

And all the crowd was trying to touch Him, for power was coming from Him and healing them all.

Nearby Context

Luke 6:17 And Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place; and there was a large crowd of His disciples, and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon,

Luke 6:18 who had come to hear Him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were being cured.

Luke 6:19 And all the crowd was trying to touch Him, for power was coming from Him and healing them all.

Luke 6:20 And turning His gaze toward His disciples, He began to say, “Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

Luke 6:21 Blessed are those who hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are those who cry now, for you shall laugh.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "crowd", "trying", "touch", "power", "coming", and "healing". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "crowd" and "trying", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 18's "who had come to hear Him and..." into verse 20's "And turning His gaze toward His disciples...", so "crowd" and "trying" belong inside that flow. In Luke context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "crowd" and "trying" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.