56And 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.
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And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: …
For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.
When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 45-56)This passage of story we had Matt. 14:22; only what was there related concerning Peter, is omitted here. Here we have, I. The dispersing of the assembly; Christ constrained his disciples to go before by ship to Bethsaida, intending to follow them, as they supposed, by land. The people were loth to scatter, so that it cost him some time and pains to send them away. For now that they had got a good…
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