Matthew 9:21

for she had said in her mind, If I but touch his garment I shall be cured.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 whose blood had flowed fourteen years, came up behind him, and touched the extremity of his robe:

22And Jesus turned himself, looked at her, and said to her: Take courage, my daughter; thy faith hath given thee life. And the woman was cured from that very hour.

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Cross References

Mark 5:26and who had suffered much from many physicians, and had expended all she possessed, and was not profited, but was even the more afflicted;

Acts 19:12so that, from the clothes on his body, napkins and rags were carried and laid upon the sick, and the diseases left them, and demons also went out.

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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