Matthew 14:36
They begged him that they might just touch the edge of his garment, and as many as touched it were healed.
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Numbers 15:38“Speak to the descendants of Israel and command them to make for themselves tassels to hang from the borders of their garments, to hang them from each border by a blue cord. They must do this throughout their people's generations.
Matthew 23:5They do all their deeds to be seen by people. For they make their phylacteries wide, and they enlarge the edges of their garments.
Luke 6:19Everyone in the crowd kept trying to touch him because power to heal was coming out from him, and he healed them all.
John 7:23If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?
Acts 4:9if we this day are being questioned concerning a good deed done to a sick man, by what means was this man made well?
Acts 19:11God was doing mighty deeds 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 →