Discovery BoxMatthew 12:15 
ContextGod’s Special Servant
12:15 Now when Jesus learned of this, he went away from there. Great 1 crowds 2 followed him, and he healed them all.
Matthew 14:14
Context14:14 As he got out he saw the large crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.
Matthew 14:36
Context14:36 They begged him if 3 they could only touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.
Matthew 17:18
Context17:18 Then 4 Jesus rebuked 5 the demon and it came out of him, and the boy was healed from that moment.
1 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
2 tc א B pc lat read only πολλοί (polloi, “many”) here, the first hand of N reads ὄχλοι (ocloi, “crowds”), while virtually all the rest of the witnesses have ὄχλοι πολλοί (ocloi polloi, “great crowds”). In spite of the good quality of both א and B (especially in combination), and the testimony of the Latin witnesses, the longer reading is most likely correct; the shorter readings were probably due to homoioteleuton.
3 tn Grk “asked that they might touch.”
4 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “Then.”
5 tn Or “commanded” (often with the implication of a threat, L&N 33.331).
