Discovery BoxMatthew 14:34-36 
Context14:34 After they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret. 1 14:35 When the people 2 there recognized him, they sent word into all the surrounding area, and they brought all their sick to him. 14:36 They begged him if 3 they could only touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.
1 sn Gennesaret was a fertile plain south of Capernaum (see also Mark 6:53). The Sea of Galilee was also sometimes known as the Sea of Gennesaret (Luke 5:1).
2 tn Grk “men”; the word here (ἀνήρ, anhr) usually indicates males or husbands, but occasionally is used in a generic sense of people in general, as here (cf. BDAG 79 s.v. 1.a, 2).
3 tn Grk “asked that they might touch.”
