Matthew 9:21

For she said to herself, “If only I touch his garment, I will be healed.”

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

20And behold, a woman who had suffered from a flow of blood for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment.

22But when Jesus turned around and saw her, he said, “Take courage, daughter; yoʋr faith has healed yoʋ.” And the woman was healed from that hour.

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Cross References

Mark 5:26She had suffered a great deal under many physicians and had spent all she had, yet received no benefit from it, but had only grown worse.

Acts 19:12so that even cloths or aprons that had touched his skin were placed upon the sick, and their diseases left them, and evil spirits came out of 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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