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Is It Actually in the Bible?
Phrases people quote as Scripture. The real verse, or the honest answer that there is not one.
"Virtue had gone out of him" (Mark 5:30) sounds like Jesus lost some of his moral goodness when the woman touched his cloak.
"Virtue" here is the old sense of "power" or "force": Jesus felt healing power leave him, not a loss of moral virtue.
Mark 5:30, in every translation this tool compares.
"Virtue" descends from the Latin virtus, which originally meant strength or power before it narrowed to moral excellence. In 1611, "virtue" was still used in the old medical sense for the inherent power or efficacy of a thing: people spoke of the "virtue" of a drug, meaning its potency.
Modern translations (NIV, ESV, NASB) simply render the underlying Greek dynamis as "power" here, which is exactly what Jesus perceived: healing force flowing out of him at the woman's touch, not a depletion of his character.
