Text -- Mark 5:28 (NET)

5:28 for she kept saying, “If only I touch his clothes, I will be healed.”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Mar 5:28

¹ tn The imperfect verb is here taken iteratively, for the context suggests that the woman was trying to muster up the courage to touch Jesus’ cloak.

² tn Grk “saved.”

sn In this pericope the author uses a term for being healed (Grk “saved”) that would have spiritual significance to his readers. It may be a double entendre (cf. parallel in Matt 9:21 which uses the same term), since elsewhere he uses verbs that simply mean “heal”: If only the reader would “touch” Jesus, he too would be “saved.”