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 besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
• Mark 3:10For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.
• Acts 5:15–16Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
• Mark 5:30And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?
• Mark 6:56And 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.
• Matt 9:20–21And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
• Mark 8:22And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
• 1 Pet 2:9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
• Luke 8:45–46And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
• Acts 19:12So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
• Luke 5:17And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
• 2 Kgs 13:21And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
• John 3:14–15And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
• Num 21:8–9And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

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