TOUCH

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Key Verse

  • And all the people were trying to touch Him, because power was coming from Him and healing them all. Luke 6:19 NASB

Jesus

1. Touched by Jesus

  • Jesus reached out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Matthew 8:3 (AMP)
  • When Jesus went into Peter’s house [in Capernaum], He saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying sick in bed with a fever. He touched her hand and the fever left her; and she got up and served Him. Matthew 8:14-15 AMP
  • Then He touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith [your trust and confidence in My power and My ability to heal] it will be done to you.” Matthew 9:29 (AMP)
  • So Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes. And immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed Him. Matthew 20:34 NKJV
  • Moved with compassion [for his suffering], Jesus reached out with His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Mark 1:41 (AMP)
  • They brought to Him a man who was deaf and had difficulty speaking, and they begged Jesus to place His hand on him. Jesus, taking him aside by himself, away from the crowd, put His fingers into the man’s ears, and after spitting, He touched the man’s tongue [with the saliva] Mark 7:32-33 (AMP)
  • Then they came to Bethsaida; and some people brought a blind man to Jesus and begged Him to touch him. Taking the blind man by the hand, He led him out of the village; and after spitting on his eyes and laying His hands on him, He asked him, “Do you see anything?” Mark 8:22-23 (AMP)
  • Jesus reached out with His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” And immediately the leprosy left him. Luke 5:13 (AMP)

2. Touched Jesus

  • And a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the tassel (fringe) of His outer robe; for she had been saying to herself, “If I only touch His outer robe, I will be healed.” Matthew 9:20-21 (AMP)
  • She came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His outer robe, and immediately her bleeding stopped. Jesus said, “Who touched Me?” While they all were denying it, Peter and those who were with him said, “Master, the people are crowding and pushing against You!” Luke 8:44-45 (AMP)
  • And they begged Him to let them merely touch the fringe of His robe; and all who touched it were perfectly restored. Matthew 14:36 (AMP)
  • Wherever He came into villages, or cities, or the countryside, they were laying the sick in the marketplaces, and they begged Him that they might touch the fringe of His robe; and all who touched it were healed. Mark 6:56 (AMP)
  • All the people were trying to touch Him, because [healing] power was coming from Him and healing them all. Luke 6:19 (AMP)
  • For He had healed many, and as a result all who had diseases pressed around Him to touch Him. Mark 3:10 (AMP)
Whether Jesus touched or they touched Jesus, either way they all got healed.

Paul

  • God was doing extraordinary and unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or face-towels or aprons that had touched his skin were brought to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out [of them]. Acts 19:11-12 AMP

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