Mark 5:28

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

Mark 16:18

16:18 they will pick up snakes with their hands, and whatever poison they drink will not harm them; they will place their hands on the sick and they will be well.”

Mark 6:56

6:56 And wherever he would go – into villages, towns, or countryside – they would place the sick in the marketplaces, and would ask him if they could just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.


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.

tn Grk “saved.”

tn For further comment on the nature of this statement, whether it is a promise or prediction, see ExSyn 403-6.

tn Grk “asked that they might touch.”