Mark 6:56

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“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.”

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BSBPD

“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.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“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.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Mark 6:56 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 15:38“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.
  2. Deuteronomy 22:12You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.
  3. 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 his feet.
  4. Matthew 9:20Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.
  5. Mark 3:10For He had healed so many that all who had diseases were pressing forward to touch Him.
  6. Mark 5:27When the woman heard about Jesus, she came up through the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak.
  7. Luke 6:19The entire crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming from Him and healing them all.
  8. Luke 8:44She came up behind Jesus and touched the fringe of His cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped.
  9. Luke 22:51But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And He touched the man’s ear and healed him.
  10. Acts 4:9If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed,
  11. 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.”
  12. 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.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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