36And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
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And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.
And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about: …
And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: …
And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 34-36)We have here an account of miracles by wholesale, which Christ wrought on the other side of the water, in the land of Gennesaret. Whithersoever Christ went, he was doing good. Gennesaret was a tract of land that lay between Bethsaida and Capernaum, and either gave the name to, or took the name from, this sea, which is called (Luke 5:1) The Lake of Gennesaret ; it signifies the valley of branches.…
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