Discovery BoxMatthew 19:2 
Context19:2 Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
Matthew 9:21
Context9:21 For she kept saying to herself, 1 “If only I touch his cloak, I will be healed.” 2
Matthew 21:14
Context21:14 The blind and lame came to him in the temple courts, and he healed them.
1 tn The imperfect verb is here taken iteratively, for the context suggests that the woman was trying to find the courage to touch Jesus’ cloak.
2 tn Grk “saved.”
sn In this pericope the author uses a term for being healed (Grk “saved”) that would have spiritual significance to his readers. It may be a double entendre (cf. parallel in Mark 5:28 which uses the same term), since elsewhere he uses verbs that simply mean “heal”: If only the reader would “touch” Jesus, he too would be “saved.”
