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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 ...
Matthew 9 is the ninth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.It continues the narrative about Jesus' ministry in Galilee as he ministers to the public, working miracles, and going through all the cities and towns of the area, preaching the gospel, and healing every disease. [1]
And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: The New International Version translates the passage as: Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak.
This agrees with verse 16 which states, that the woman "Satan had kept bound for eighteen long years." In the same manner the devil afflicted Job with various diseases (Job 2, see also Ps. 78:49 [2]). He further writes that, "the devil, therefore, made this woman crooked and bent, to compel her always to look down upon the earth." [3]
Matthew's story of the bleeding woman also concludes there (Matthew 9:20–22). [ 5 ] : 63–67 In Mark and Luke, the woman's act of touching his cloak appears to disturb Jesus, who seems agitated or even angry (given the mention that the woman φοβηθεῖσα καὶ τρέμουσα 'trembled in fear' at his reaction), as he feels (Mark ...
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Jesus healing the sick by Gustave Dore, (19th century). According to the Gospel of Mark, as Jesus passes through Gennesaret, just after the account of him walking on water, all those who touch the edge, or hem, or fringe of his cloak are healed: