Matthew 9:20

Translations

Modern

Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.

Traditional

And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:

Literal

And behold, a woman having a flow of blood twelve years, having come behind Him, touched the fringe of His garment.

Latin

Et ecce mulier, quæ sanguinis fluxum patiebatur duodecim annis, accessit retro, et tetigit fimbriam vestimenti ejus.

Original

Greek

English

Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.

Notes

Matthew 9:20

Because of her constant bleeding, the woman was always considered ceremonially unclean. Anyone she touched was also unclean (Leviticus 15:25–30). But when she touched Jesus, instead of making him unclean, she was made clean. This surprising reversal shows the power to heal, redeem, and make holy (see Matthew 14:36; Mark 3:10).

fringe: The tassels at the bottom of a tunic (Matthew 23:5; Numbers 15:37–41) reminded Jews to obey God's law.

Matthew 9:18–34

Jesus is the Messiah with limitless power. He invites people to trust in him.

Matthew 8:1–9:34

Here, the kingdom of God appears with supernatural power (see Matthew 4:23–25; 11:2–6). It reaches people who were previously excluded from God's blessings. This included:

non-Jewish people,
lepers,
blind people,
sick women,
people possessed by demons,
tax collectors,
those with long-term bleeding, and
the dead.

Jesus showed compassion to people in need. But the religious leaders reacted with anger and opposition. Jesus called his followers to respond with faith and to walk in discipleship (living as his learners and followers).

Theme notes and profiles

The Stone the Builders Rejected

Events

Capernaum Miraclesc. AD 28

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Luke 8:43–56
…including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.
Mark 6:56
And wherever He went—villages and towns and countrysides—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
Matthew 14:36
…and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
Mark 5:25–43
And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years.
Deuteronomy 22:12
You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.
Matthew 23:5
All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.
Acts 5:15
As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.
Leviticus 15:25–33
When a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days at a time other than her menstrual period, or if it continues beyond her period, she will be unclean all the days of her unclean discharge, just as she is during the days of her menstruation.
Acts 19:12
…so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and the diseases and evil spirits left them.
Numbers 15:38–39
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout the generations to come they are to make for themselves tassels for the corners of their garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.
Mark 8:22
When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.

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