Mattheüs 9:21

21 Want zij zeide in zichzelven: Indien ik alleenlijk Zijn kleed aanraak, zo zal ik gezond worden.

Mattheüs 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.

Mattheüs 9:21 In-Context

19 En Jezus opgestaan zijnde, volgde hem, en Zijn discipelen.

20 (En ziet, een vrouw die twaalf jaren het bloedvloeien gehad had, komende tot Hem van achteren, raakte den zoom Zijns kleeds aan;

21 Want zij zeide in zichzelven: Indien ik alleenlijk Zijn kleed aanraak, zo zal ik gezond worden.

22 En Jezus, Zich omkerende, en haar ziende, zeide: Wees welgemoed, dochter! uw geloof heeft u behouden. En de vrouw werd gezond van dezelve ure af.)

23 En als Jezus in het huis des oversten kwam, en zag de pijpers en de woelende schare,