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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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Mark records Jesus traveling through the region as crowds anticipate His arrival. The narrative describes people laying the sick in marketplaces across villages, towns, and countryside as He passes through.
The words — ὅπου (hopou) translates to "wherever" and κώμας (kōmas) translates to "villages," charting the geographic scope of Jesus' movement. The text uses these terms to show the sick were positioned in every settlement He entered.
The thread — The request to touch the fringe of His cloak recalls the ritual tassels mandated in Numbers 15:38 and the bleeding woman's contact in Matthew 9:20. Luke 6:19 similarly records crowds pressing against Jesus to receive healing power.
Why it lands — The text states that every person who touched Him was healed, establishing His presence as the direct source of restoration. It asks readers to bring their needs to Him without delay or condition.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.
Cross-references
- Matthew 9:20 Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.
- Numbers 15:38 “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.
- Luke 6:19 The entire crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming from Him and healing them all.
- Mark 3:10 For He had healed so many that all who had diseases were pressing forward to touch Him.
- Mark 5:27 When the woman heard about Jesus, she came up through the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak.
- 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.
- 2 Kings 13:21 Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders, so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. And as soon as his body touched the bones of Elisha, the man was revived and stood up on his feet.
- Luke 8:44 She came up behind Jesus and touched the fringe of His cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped.
- Acts 4:12 Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
- Deuteronomy 22:12 You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.