And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
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Gill's Exposition
And when the woman saw that she was not hid,.... From Christ, among the crowd, nor the thing that she had done. The Syriac and Arabic versions render it, "that he had not forgot her"; she hoping he…
Adam Clarke
I perceive that virtue - Δυναμιν, Divine or miraculous power. This Divine emanation did not proceed always from Christ, as necessarily as odours do from plants, for then all who touched him must have…
Christ was driven away by the Gadarenes; they were weary of him, and willing to be rid of him. But when he had crossed the water, and returned to the Galileans, they gladly received him, wished and…
Cambridge Bible
Somebody hath touched me Rather, Some one touched me. "They press; shetouches." Aug. "Flesh presses; faith touches." Id. Our Lord's question was meant to reach the woman's heart, comp. Gen 3:9; Gen…