Matthew 9:21

She had told herself, “If I can just touch his cloak, I'll 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

20At that moment a woman who had been sick with bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the hem of his cloak.

22Jesus turned and saw her. “Be happy, for your trust in me has healed you,” he told her. The woman was immediately healed.

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Cross References

Mark 5:26She'd suffered considerably under the care of many doctors, and had spent all she had. But nothing helped her—in fact she'd grown worse.

Acts 19:12so much so that they took handkerchiefs or aprons Paul had touched to heal the sick and to drive out evil spirits.

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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