Mark 5:28

She did that because she was thinking, “If I touch him or even if I touch his clothes, I will be healed {his power will heal me}.” So she touched Jesus’ clothes.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.

In Context

27After she heard that Jesus healed people, she came to where he was and pushed in the crowd close behind Jesus.

29At once her bleeding stopped. At the same time, she sensed that she had been cured of {that he had cured} her illness.

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Matthew Henry on Mark 5:22-35

The Healing of the Bloody Issue. 21 And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him: and he was nigh unto the sea. 22 And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet, 23 And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live. 24 And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him,… Read the whole commentary →

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