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Matthew 9:21
Matthew 9:21 is verse 21 of Matthew chapter 9, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
She said to herself, “If only I touch His cloak, I will be healed.”
King James Version
For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
World English Bible
for she said within herself, “If I just touch his garment, I will be made well.”
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Matthew 9:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
23 When Jesus entered the house of the synagogue leader, He saw the flute players and the noisy crowd.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Mark 5:26She 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 5:27When the woman heard about Jesus, she came up through the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak.
Mark 5:28For she kept saying, “If only I touch His garments, I will be healed.”
Mark 5:29Immediately her bleeding stopped, and she sensed in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
Mark 5:30At once Jesus was aware that power had gone out from Him. Turning to the crowd, He asked, “Who touched My garments?”
Mark 5:31His disciples answered, “You can see the crowd pressing in on You, and yet You ask, ‘Who touched Me?’”
Mark 5:32But He kept looking around to see who had done this.
Mark 5:33Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him trembling in fear, and she told Him the whole truth.
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 8:46But Jesus declared, “Someone touched Me, for I know that power has gone out from Me.”
Luke 8:47Then 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.
Acts 19:12so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and the diseases and evil spirits left them.