Matthew 14:34–36

14:34 After they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret.33 14:35 When the people34 there recognized him, they sent word into all the surrounding area, and they brought all their sick to him. 14:36 They begged him if35 they could only touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

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33	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).
34	tn Grk “men”; the word here (ἀνήρ, anēr) 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).
35	tn Grk “asked that they might touch.”