20And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
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And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, …
And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
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.
And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, …
Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-26)We have here two passages of history put together; that of the raising of Jairus’s daughter to life, and that of the curing of the woman that had the bloody issue , as he was going to Jairus’s house, which is introduced in a parenthesis, in the midst of the other; for Christ’s miracles were thick sown, and interwoven; the work of him that sent him was his daily work. He was called to do these good…
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