Matthew 9:20
18 While Jesus was saying these things, a synagogue leader came and knelt before Him. “My daughter has just died,” he said. “But come and place Your hand on her, and she will live.”
19 So Jesus got up and went with him, along with His disciples.
Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.
21 She said to herself, “If only I touch His cloak, I will be healed.”
22 Jesus turned and saw her. “Take courage, daughter,” He said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was cured from that very hour.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.
- KJV
- And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
- WEB
- Behold, a woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment;
- ASV
- And behold, a woman, who had an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the border of his garment:
- DARBY
- And behold, a woman, who had had a bloody flux [for] twelve years, came behind and touched the hem of his garment;
- BLB
- And behold, a woman having a flow of blood twelve years, having come behind [Him], touched the fringe of His garment.
- ÅB
- Og en kvinne som hadde hatt blødninger i tolv år, kom bakfra og berørte kanten av kappen hans;
- OTB
- Akkurat da kom en kvinne som hadde lidd av blødninger i tolv år, bak ham og rørte ved kanten av kappen hans.
- B1930
- Og se, en kvinne som hadde hatt blodsott i tolv år, trådte til bakfra og rørte ved det ytterste av hans klædebon;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Luke 8:43–56
including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.
Read in contextMark 6:56
And wherever He went—villages and towns and countrysides—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
Read in contextMatthew 14:36
and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
Read in contextMark 5:25–43
And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 22:12
You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.
Read in contextActs 5:15
As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.
Read in contextMatthew 23:5
All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.
Read in contextLeviticus 15:25–33
When a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days at a time other than her menstrual period, or if it continues beyond her period, she will be unclean all the days of her unclean discharge, just as she is during the days of her menstruation.
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