Luke 6:19

The crowd seeks to touch Jesus because healing power flows from him. His person is the source of divine restoring power.

Cross-references · 14

• Matt 14:36and they begged him that they might just touch the fringe of his garment. As many as touched it were made whole.
• Mark 3:10For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.
• Acts 5:15–16They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some of them.
• Mark 5:30Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”
• Mark 6:56Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch just the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well.
• Matt 9:20–21Behold, a woman who had an issue of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment;
• Mark 8:22He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him, and begged him to touch him.
• 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
• Luke 8:45–46Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”
• Acts 19:12so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out.
• Luke 5:17On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.
• 2 Kgs 13:21As they were burying a man, behold, they saw a band of raiders; and they threw the man into Elisha’s tomb. As soon as the man touched Elisha’s bones, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
• John 3:14–15As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
• Num 21:8–9Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a venomous snake, and set it on a pole. It shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”

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