Mark 5:28

28 For she said: If I shall touch but his garment, I shall be whole.

Mark 5:28 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 5:28

For she said
Within herself, such were her thoughts, and so great her faith:

if I may touch but his clothes I shall be whole;
(See Gill on Matthew 9:21).

Mark 5:28 In-Context

26 And had suffered many things from many physicians; and had spent all that she had, and was nothing the better, but rather worse,

27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the crowd behind him, and touched his garment.

28 For she said: If I shall touch but his garment, I shall be whole.

29 And forthwith the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the evil.

30 And immediately Jesus knowing in himself the virtue that had proceeded from him, turning to the multitude, said: Who hath touched my garments?