44Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. …
Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 40-56)Christ was driven away by the Gadarenes ; they were weary of him, and willing to be rid of him. But when he had crossed the water, and returned to the Galileans , they gladly received him, wished and waited for his return, and welcomed him with all their hearts when he did return, Luke 8:40. If some will not accept the favours Christ offers them, others will . If the Gadarenes be not gathered, yet…
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