That they might only touch the hem of his garment. — The wide-spread belief may be noted as the natural result of the miracle already recorded in Matthew 9:20-22, and as the touch implied the faith which was the condition of receptivity, it was now also, as before, effective.
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Matthew 14:36
36 And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.