for she said within herself, “If I just touch his garment, I will be made well.”
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for she said within herself, “If I just touch his garment, I will be made well.”
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Questions where the Bible appears to say two different things, with the passages on each side set together.
Mark 5:29 and Luke 8:44 say the bleeding stopped "immediately" — *euthys* in Mark, *parachrema* in Luke — at the instant she touched Jesus' garment. Matthew 9:22 says the woman "was made whole from that hour" (*apo tēs hōras ekeinēs*), explicitly placing the healing after Jesus turns and speaks to her, not at the moment of contact.
Critical scholarship: Leans toward a genuine contradiction.
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"Matthew 9:21 — Scripture Analysis" GEBible, https://gebible.app/analysis/verse/matthew/9/21?version=WEB (retrieved 26 August 2026).