Mark 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.
Mark 6:56 in other translations
| BSB | 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. |
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| WEB | Wherever he entered—into villages, or into cities, or into the country—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might just touch the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well. |
| ASV | And wheresoever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, 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. |
| YLT | and wherever he was going, to villages, or cities, or fields, in the market-places they were laying the infirm, and were calling upon him, that they may touch if it were but the fringe of his garment, and as many as were touching him were saved. |
| DARBY | And wherever he entered into villages, or cities, or the country, they laid the sick in the market-places, and besought him that they might touch if it were only the hem of his garment; and as many as touched him were healed. |
| BBE | And wherever he went, into small towns, or great towns, or into the country, they took those who were ill into the market-places, requesting him that they might put their hands even on the edge of his robe: and all those who did so were made well. |
| Webster | 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 healed. |
What does Mark 6:56 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Mark 6:45-56
The church is often like a ship at sea, tossed with tempests, and not comforted: we may have Christ for us, yet wind and tide against us; but it is a comfort to Christ's disciples in a storm, that their Master is in the heavenly mount, interceding for them. And no difficulties can hinder Christ's appearance for his people, when the set time is come. He silenced their fears, by making himself known to them. Our fears…
Mark 6:56 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Mark 6:56
- Matthew 9:20
And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
- Luke 6:19
And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
- Mark 3:10
For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.
- Numbers 15:38-39
Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
- Mark 5:27-28
When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.
- Acts 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.
- Luke 8:44
Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
- Acts 4:12
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
- 2 Kings 13:21
And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
- Luke 22:51
And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.
- Acts 4:9
If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
- Deuteronomy 22:12
Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
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Context
- Mark 6:55
And ran through that whole region round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.
- Mark 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.
Mark 6:56 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y donde quiera que entraba, en aldeas, ó ciudades, ó heredades, ponían en las calles á los que estaban enfermos, y le rogaban que tocasen siquiera el borde de su vestido; y todos los que le tocaban quedaban sanos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et où que ce soit qu’il entrait, dans les villages, ou dans les villes, ou dans les campagnes, ils plaçaient les infirmes dans les marchés et le priaient de les laisser toucher ne serait-ce que le bord de son vêtement; et tous ceux qui le touchaient étaient guéris. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und wo irgend er eintrat in Dörfer oder Städte oder aufs Land, legten sie die Kranken auf den Marktplätzen hin und baten ihn, daß sie nur die Quaste seines Kleides anrühren dürften; und so viele irgend ihn anrührten, wurden geheilt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et quocumque introibat, in vicos, vel in villas aut civitates, in plateis ponebant infirmos, et deprecabantur eum, ut vel fimbriam vestimenti ejus tangerent, et quotquot tangebant eum, salvi fiebant. |