Matthew 14:36
And they besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment. And as many as touched were healed.
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Numbers 15:38Speak to the sons of Israel, and bid them that they make for them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of each border a cord of blue.
Matthew 23:5But all their works they do in order to be seen by men. And they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the hems of their garments.
Luke 6:19And all the multitude sought to touch him, because power came forth from him, and healed them all.
John 7:23If a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath, so that the law of Moses may not be loosed, are ye angry with me because I made a man entirely well on a Sabbath?
Acts 4:9if we are examined today about a good deed, of a feeble man, by what this man has been healed,
Acts 19:11And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,
Matthew Henry on Matthew 14:35-36
The People of Gennesaret Flock to Christ. 34 And when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesaret. 35 And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased; 36 And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole. We have here an account of miracles by wholesale, which Christ wrought on the other side of the water, in the land of Gennesaret.… Read the whole commentary →