Matthew 9:20

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Matthew 9:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

20 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.

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Mark 5:25

And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years.

Mark 5:26

She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse.

Mark 5:27

When the woman heard about Jesus, she came up through the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak.

Mark 5:28

For she kept saying, “If only I touch His garments, I will be healed.”

Mark 5:29

Immediately her bleeding stopped, and she sensed in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

Mark 5:30

At once Jesus was aware that power had gone out from Him. Turning to the crowd, He asked, “Who touched My garments?”

Mark 5:31

His disciples answered, “You can see the crowd pressing in on You, and yet You ask, ‘Who touched Me?’”

Mark 5:32

But He kept looking around to see who had done this.

Mark 5:33

Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him trembling in fear, and she told Him the whole truth.

Mark 5:34

“Daughter,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be free of your affliction.”

Mark 5:35

While He was still speaking, messengers from the house of Jairus arrived and said, “Your daughter is dead; why bother the Teacher anymore?”

Mark 5:36

But Jesus overheard their conversation and said to Jairus, “Do not be afraid; just believe.”

Mark 5:37

And He did not allow anyone to accompany Him except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.

Mark 5:38

When they arrived at the house of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw the commotion and the people weeping and wailing loudly.

Mark 5:39

He went inside and asked, “Why all this commotion and weeping? The child is not dead, but asleep.”

Mark 5:40

And they laughed at Him. After He had put them all outside, He took the child’s father and mother and His own companions, and went in to see the child.

Mark 5:41

Taking her by the hand, Jesus said, “Talitha koum!” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”

Mark 5:42

Immediately the girl got up and began to walk around. She was twelve years old, and at once they were utterly astounded.

Mark 5:43

Then Jesus gave strict orders that no one should know about this, and He told them to give her something to eat.

Luke 8:43

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.

Luke 8:44

She came up behind Jesus and touched the fringe of His cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped.

Luke 8:45

“Who touched Me?” Jesus asked. But they all denied it. “Master,” said Peter, “the people are crowding and pressing against You.”

Luke 8:46

But Jesus declared, “Someone touched Me, for I know that power has gone out from Me.”

Luke 8:47

Then the woman, seeing that she could not escape notice, came trembling and fell down before Him. In the presence of all the people, she explained why she had touched Him and how she had immediately been healed.

Luke 8:48

“Daughter,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you. Go in peace.”

Luke 8:49

While He was still speaking, someone arrived from the house of the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” he told Jairus. “Do not bother the Teacher anymore.”

Luke 8:50

But Jesus overheard them and said to Jairus, “Do not be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.”

Luke 8:51

When He entered the house, He did not allow anyone to go in with Him except Peter, John, James, and the child’s father and mother.

Luke 8:52

Meanwhile, everyone was weeping and mourning for her. But Jesus said, “Stop weeping; she is not dead but asleep.”

Luke 8:53

And they laughed at Him, knowing that she was dead.

Luke 8:54

But Jesus took her by the hand and called out, “Child, get up!”

Luke 8:55

Her spirit returned, and at once she got up. And He directed that she be given something to eat.

Luke 8:56

Her parents were astounded, but Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened.

Leviticus 15:25

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.

Leviticus 15:26

Any bed on which she lies or any furniture on which she sits during the days of her discharge will be unclean, like her bed during her menstrual period.

Leviticus 15:27

Anyone who touches these things will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:28

When a woman is cleansed of her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean.

Leviticus 15:29

On the eighth day she is to take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 15:30

The priest is to sacrifice one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her before the LORD for her unclean discharge.

Leviticus 15:31

You must keep the children of Israel separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling My tabernacle, which is among them.

Leviticus 15:32

This is the law of him who has a discharge, of the man who has an emission of semen whereby he is unclean,

Leviticus 15:33

of a woman in her menstrual period, of any male or female who has a discharge, and of a man who lies with an unclean woman.’”

Matthew 14:36

and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.

Mark 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.

Mark 8:22

When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.

Acts 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.

Acts 19:12

so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and the diseases and evil spirits left them.

Matthew 23:5

All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.

Numbers 15:38

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout the generations to come they are to make for themselves tassels for the corners of their garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.

Numbers 15:39

These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.

Deuteronomy 22:12

You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.