Matthew Chapter 9 verse 21 Holy Bible
for she said within herself, If I do but touch his garment, I shall be made whole.
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Because, she said to herself, if I may but put my hand on his robe, I will be made well.
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for she said within herself, If I should only touch his garment I shall be healed.
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For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
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for she said within herself, "If I just touch his garment, I will be made well."
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for she said within herself, `If only I may touch his garment, I shall be saved.'
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Matthew 9 : 21 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 21. - For she said within herself, If I may; do (Revised Version). There is no thought of permission (ἐὰν μόνον ἅψωμαι). But touch his garment, I shall be whole; saved (Revised Version margin). The threefold σώζειν is suggestive. Observe that she is "saved" in spite of her superstition; God "pitieth the blind that would gladly see" (Hooker, 'Serm.,' 2. § 38).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(21) She said within herself.--The words indicate a faith real but not strong. She believed, as the leper did, in the power to heal, but did not trust the love, and shrank from the thought lest the Healer should shrink from her. And she thought not of a will that seeks to bless and save, but of a physical effluence passing from the body to the garments, and from the garments to the hand that touched them. Yet weak as the faith was, it was accepted, and outward things were endowed with a "virtue" which was not their own. So afterwards, where a like belief prevailed, the "handkerchiefs and aprons" that were brought from St. Paul's flesh became means of healing (Acts 19:12).
