came behind him, and touched the fringe of his cloak. Immediately the flow of her blood stopped.
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came behind him, and touched the fringe of his cloak. Immediately the flow of her blood stopped.
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came behinde him and touched the hem of his garmet and immediatly her issue of bloud staunched.
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When she came behind him, she touched the hemme of his garment, and immediatly her yssue of blood stanched.
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- Mark 5:27-28 having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes. For she said, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well.”
- Deuteronomy 22:12 You shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.
- Malachi 4:2 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
- Acts 19:12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out.
- Exodus 15:26 He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
- Matthew 8:3 Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
- Matthew 20:34 Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.
- Mark 6:56 Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might just touch the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well.
- Luke 7:38 Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
- Luke 13:13 He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and glorified God.
- John 5:13 But he who was healed didn’t know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
- Acts 5:15 They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some of them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Jesus said, who touched me?.... This he said,…
And Jesus said, who touched me?.... This he said, not as ignorant of the person that had done it, but in order to discover her to the people, and the cure she had received, as well as her faith; See Gill on Mar 5:30.
When all denied; both the disciples and the multitude, as many as were near him, and who might be thought to have done it; all excepting the woman, who afterwards came and declared it; for it is very likely, that as soon as she had touched his garment, and got her cure, she drew further off:
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Peter, and they that were with him; the rest of the disciples, who were in company together, as appears from Mar 5:31
Said, Master, the multitude throng thee, and press thee, and sayest thou, who touched me? or "my garment", as the Ethiopic version reads; See Gill on Mar 5:31.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 44. came behind him, and totiched the border of…
44. came behind him, and totiched the border of his garment] Rather,
approaching from behind touched the tassel of His outer robe. This is a miracle ‘by the way’ (obiter), but, as Fuller says, “His obiter is more to the purpose than our iter” She sought to steal (as it were) a miracle of grace, and fancied that Christ’s miracles were a matter of nature, not of will and purpose. Probably the intense depression produced by her disease, aggravated by the manner in which for twelve years every one had kept aloof from her and striven not to touch her, had quite crushed her spirits. By the Levitic law she had to be “put apart, and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean” (Lev_15:19; Lev_15:25). The word translated “border” (kraspedon, Heb. tsitsith) is a tassel at each “wing” or corner of the tallith or mantle (Mat_14:36). The Law (Num_15:38-40) required that it should be bound with a thread (not as in E. V. ribband) of blue, the colour of heaven, and so the type of revelation. The strict Jews to this day wear these tassels, though they are usually concealed. The Pharisees, to proclaim their orthodoxy, made them conspicuously large, Mat_23:5. One of the four tassels hung over the shoulder at the back, and this was the one which the woman touched. (For full particulars of the Rabbinic rules about these tassels see an article by the present writer, in the Expositor, v. 219.) The quasi-sacredness of the tassels may have fostered her impulse to touch the one that hung in view.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 8:44 The fringe of his robe probably refers to…
8:44 The fringe of his robe probably refers to the tassels that pious Jews wore on the edges of their robes (see Num 15:38-39; Deut 22:12).
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