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Matthew's and Luke's accounts specify the "fringe" of his cloak, using a Greek word which also appears in Mark 6. [8] According to the Catholic Encyclopedia article on fringes in Scripture, the Pharisees (one of the sects of Second Temple Judaism) who were the progenitors of modern Rabbinic Judaism, were in the habit of wearing extra-long fringes or tassels (Matthew 23:5), [9] a reference to ...
On the way there, a woman who suffers from chronic "bleeding", perhaps menorrhagia or bleeding from fibroids. [11] She sneaks up to Jesus and touches his garment, according to Matt 9:20–22 and Luke 8:43–48 (see also Mark 6:53–56, Mark 6#Healing of the sick of Gennesaret) the "fringe of his cloak" [12] (Matt 9:20 - NRSV), by which she is ...
The closest written reference is the miracle of Jesus healing the bleeding woman by touching the hem of Jesus' garment; [5] her name is later identified as Veronica by the apocryphal "Acts of Pilate". The story was later elaborated in the 11th century by adding that Christ gave her a portrait of himself on a cloth, with which she later cured ...
One such woman had been plagued with a flow of blood for 12 years, no one having been able to heal her. She found the faith in a crowd to force her way up to Jesus, approaching him from behind so as to remain inconspicuous, and simply touching his garment. [13] When she did, two things happened: the flows of blood stopped and she was discovered.
With the world's annual celebration of his birth mere weeks away, it turns out one of the most revered figures who ever walked the Earth likely didn't look like the pictures of him.
And a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years, came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His (Jesus') cloak; for she was saying to herself, 'If I only touch His garment, I will get well.' But Jesus turning and seeing her said, 'Daughter, take courage; your faith has made you well.' At once the woman was made well.
Jesus: 'Who touched me?' All denied. Peter: 'People crowding and pressing against you.' Jesus: 'Someone touched me, I know power has gone out of me.' Seeing she would be noticed, the woman trembled in fear, fell at his feet, told why she touched him and that she was immediately healed. Jesus: 'Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.'
Kowalska wrote that Jesus' right hand was raised in a sign of blessing, the other was touching the garment near his breast, and that from beneath the garment slightly down, aside his breast, emanated two large rays, one red, the other white. [5] [6] [7] In her diary (Notebook 1, items 47 and 48), she wrote that Jesus told her: [3]