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Jesus Heals at Gennesaret

Mark 6:56

In 9 translations

BSB
And wherever He went—villages and towns and countrysides—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
KJV
And 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.
WEB
Wherever he entered—into villages, or into cities, or into the country—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might just touch the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well.or, tassel
ASV
And wheresoever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, 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.
LSV
and wherever He was going, to villages, or cities, or fields, in the marketplaces they were laying the ailing, and were calling on Him, that they may touch if it were but the fringe of His garment, and as many as were touching Him were saved.
YLT
and wherever he was going, to villages, or cities, or fields, in the market-places they were laying the infirm, and were calling upon him, that they may touch if it were but the fringe of his garment, and as many as were touching him were saved.
DBY
And wherever he entered into villages, or cities, or the country, they laid the sick in the market-places, and besought him that they might touch if it were only the hem of his garment; and as many as touched him were healed.
DRC
And whithersoever he entered, into towns or into villages or cities, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch but the hem of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.
GNV
And whithersoeuer he entred into townes, or cities, or villages, they laide their sicke in the streetes, and prayed him that they might touch at the least the edge of his garment. And as many as touched him, were made whole.

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Where the editions differ

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ἥψαντο (“touched”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ἥπτοντο (“did touch”).
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
  • In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles include εἰς (“into”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text do not include this wording (2 places).
  • Spelling of ἐτίθεσαν: Textus Receptus, Byzantine text: ἐτίθουν.
SBLGNT apparatus (3)

A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.

  • SBLGNT: εἰς πόλεις ἢ εἰς. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read εἰς πόλεις ἢ εἰς; Robinson–Pierpont read πόλεις ἢ.
  • SBLGNT: ἐτίθεσαν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἐτίθεσαν; Robinson–Pierpont read ἐτίθουν.
  • SBLGNT: ἥψαντο. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἥψαντο; Robinson–Pierpont read ἥπτοντο.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
καὶ ὅπου ἂν εἰσεπορεύετο εἰς κώμας ἢ εἰς πόλεις ἢ εἰς ἀγροὺς ἐν ταῖς ἀγοραῖς ἐτίθεσαν τοὺς ἀσθενοῦντας, καὶ παρεκάλουν αὐτὸν ἵνα κἂν τοῦ κρασπέδου τοῦ ἱματίου αὐτοῦ ἅψωνται· καὶ ὅσοι ἂν ἥψαντο αὐτοῦ ἐσῴζοντο.
RP2018
Καὶ ὅπου ἂν εἰσεπορεύετο εἰς κώμας ἢ πόλεις ἢ ἀγρούς, ἐν ταῖς ἀγοραῖς ἐτίθουν τοὺς ἀσθενοῦντας, καὶ παρεκάλουν αὐτὸν ἵνα κἂν τοῦ κρασπέδου τοῦ ἱματίου αὐτοῦ ἅψωνται· καὶ ὅσοι ἂν ἥπτοντο αὐτοῦ ἐσῴζοντο.
TR-Boyd
Καὶ ὅπου ἂν εἰσεπορεύετο εἰς κώμας ἢ πόλεις ἢ ἀγρούς, ἐν ταῖς ἀγοραῖς ἐτίθουν τοὺς ἀσθενοῦντας, καὶ παρεκάλουν αὐτὸν ἵνα κἂν τοῦ κρασπέδου τοῦ ἱματίου αὐτοῦ ἅψωνται· καὶ ὅσοι ἂν ἥπτοντο αὐτοῦ ἐσώζοντο.
SCR1894
και οπου αν εισεπορευετο εις κωμας η πολεις η αγρους εν ταις αγοραις ετιθουν τους ασθενουντας και παρεκαλουν αυτον ινα καν του κρασπεδου του ιματιου αυτου αψωνται και οσοι αν ηπτοντο αυτου εσωζοντο

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◆ Healing in Gennesaret

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Luke 6:19The entire crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming from Him and healing them all.
  • Matthew 9:20Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.
  • Mark 3:10For He had healed so many that all who had diseases were pressing forward to touch Him.
  • Numbers 15:38–39“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout the generations to come they are to make for themselves tassels for the corners of their garments, with a blue cord on each tassel. These will serve as tassels for…
  • Mark 5:27–28When the woman heard about Jesus, she came up through the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak. For she kept saying, “If only I touch His garments, I will be healed.”
  • Luke 8:44She came up behind Jesus and touched the fringe of His cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped.
  • Acts 5:15As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.
  • 2 Kings 13:21Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders, so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. And as soon as his body touched the bones of Elisha, the man was revived and stood up on…
  • Acts 4:12Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
  • Luke 22:51But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And He touched the man’s ear and healed him.
  • Acts 4:9If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed,
  • Deuteronomy 22:12You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.

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