Matthew 9:20
18 While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
19 And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.
And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that 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
And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
Read in contextMark 6:56
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.
Read in contextMatthew 14:36
And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
Read in contextMark 5:25–43
And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 22:12
Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
Read in contextActs 5:15
Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
Read in contextMatthew 23:5
But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
Read in contextLeviticus 15:25–33
And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
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