Matthew 9:21

For she kept saying to herself, “If only I may touch His garment I will be healed.”

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In The King James Version

For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.

In Context

20And then—a woman who had been hemorrhaging for twelve years came from behind and touched the hem of His garment.

22But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, “Take courage, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And the woman was healed from that very hour.

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Cross References

Mark 5:26and had suffered many things under many doctors, and had spent all that she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse—

Acts 19:12so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that he touched were applied to the sick, and the diseases left them and the wicked spirits went out from them.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 9:19-27

The Ruler's Daughter Raised. 18 While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. 19 And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples. 20 And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: 21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. 22 But Jesus… Read the whole commentary →

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