Matthew 9:21

21 She said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.”

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Matthew 9:21 in Other Translations

KJV

21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.

ESV

21 for she said to herself, "If I only touch his garment, I will be made well."

NLT

21 for she thought, “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed.”

MSG

21 She was thinking to herself, "If I can just put a finger on his robe, I'll get well." Jesus turned - caught her at it. Then he reassured her: "Courage, daughter. You took a risk of faith, and now you're well."

CSB

21 for she said to herself, "If I can just touch His robe, I'll be made well!"

Matthew 9:21 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 9:21

For she said within herself
That is, she thought within herself, she reasoned the matter in her mind, she concluded upon it, and firmly believed it; being strongly impressed and influenced by the Spirit of God, and encouraged by instances of cures she had heard were performed by persons only touching him; see ( Luke 6:19 )

if I may but touch his garment.
The Arabic version reads it, "the hem of his garment", as before; but is not supported by any copy, nor by any other version: her faith was, that if she might be allowed, or if she could by any means come at him, to touch any part of his garment, she should have a cure:

I shall be whole,
or "I shall be saved"; that is, from her disease, from which she could have no deliverance, by the advice and prescriptions of all her former physicians, and by all the means she had made use of.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible