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:
Matthew 9:20 in other translations
| BSB | Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak. |
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| 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: |
| YLT | and lo, a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, having come to him behind, did touch the fringe of his garments, |
| DARBY | And behold, a woman, who had had a bloody flux for twelve years, came behind and touched the hem of his garment; |
| BBE | And a woman, who for twelve years had had a flow of blood, came after him, and put her hand on the edge of his robe: |
| Webster | (And behold, a woman who was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment. |
What does Matthew 9:20 mean?
Barnes' Notes
Touched the hem of his garment. This garment was probably the square garment which was thrown over the shoulders. Mt 5:40. This was surrounded by a border, or fringe; and this fringe, or the loose threads hanging down, is what is meant by the hem. The Jews were commanded to wear this ill order to distinguish them from other nations. See Nu 15:38,39, De 22:12.
Mark says that the woman, fearing and trembling, came and told him all the truth. Perhaps she feared that, from the impure nature of her disease, he would be offended that she touched him.
Be of good comfort. Jesus silenced her fears, commended her faith, and sent her away in peace. He used an endearing appellation, calling her daughter, a word of tenderness and affection, and dismissed her who had been twelve long and tedious years labouring under a weakening and offensive disease, now in an instant made whole. Her faith, her strong confidence in Jesus, had been the means of her restoration. It was the power of Jesus that cured her; but that power would not have been exerted but in connexion with faith. So in the salvation of a sinner. No one is saved who does not believe; but faith is the instrument, and not the power, that saves.
(b) "And, behold" Mk 5:25, Lk 8:43
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Matthew 9:18-26
The death of our relations should drive us to Christ, who is our life. And it is high honour to the greatest rulers to attend on the Lord Jesus; and those who would receive mercy from Christ, must honour him. The variety of methods Christ took in working his miracles, perhaps was because of the different frames and tempers of mind, which those were in who came to him, and which He who searches the heart perfectly…
Matthew 9:20 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Matthew 9:20
- 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, Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched. And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me. …
- 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.
- Matthew 14:36
And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
- Mark 5:25-43
And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, 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. …
- Deuteronomy 22:12
Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
- 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.
- Matthew 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,
- Leviticus 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. Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation. And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. …
- Acts 19:12
So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
- 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 8:22
And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Mr 5:25-43; Lu 8:43-56
an issue.
Le 15:25-33
touched.
14:36; Mr 5:28; 6:56; 8:22; Ac 5:15; 19:12
hem.
23:5; Nu 15:38,39; De 22:12; Lu 8:44
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Context
- Matthew 9:19
And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.
- 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:
- Matthew 9:21
For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
Matthew 9:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y he aquí una mujer enferma de flujo de sangre doce años había, llegándose por detrás, tocó la franja de su vestido: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et voici, une femme qui avait une perte de sang depuis douze ans s’approcha par-derrière et toucha le bord de son vêtement; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und siehe, ein Weib, das zwölf Jahre blutflüssig war, trat von hinten herzu und rührte die Quaste seines Kleides an; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et ecce mulier, quæ sanguinis fluxum patiebatur duodecim annis, accessit retro, et tetigit fimbriam vestimenti ejus. |