Mark 6:56
Good News Translation
And everywhere Jesus went, to villages, towns, or farms, people would take their sick to the marketplaces and beg him to let the sick at least touch the edge of his cloak. And all who touched it were made well.

New Revised Standard Version
And wherever he went, into villages or cities or farms, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched it were healed.

Contemporary English Version
In every village or farm or marketplace where Jesus went, the people brought their sick to him. They begged him to let them just touch his clothes, and everyone who did was healed.

New American Bible
Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as many as touched it were healed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

they laid.

Acts 5:15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that, when Peter came, his shadow at the least might overshadow any of them and they might be delivered from their infirmities.

touch.

Mark 3:10 For he healed many, so that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had evils.

Mark 5:27,28 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the crowd behind him, and touched his garment. . . .

2 Kings 13:21 And some that were burying a man, saw the rovers, and cast the body into the sepulchre of Eliseus. And when it had touched the bones of Eliseus, the man came to life and stood upon his feet.

Luke 6:19 And all the multitude sought to touch him: for virtue went out from him and healed all.

Luke 22:51 But Jesus answering, said: Suffer ye thus far. And when he had touched his ear, he healed him.

Acts 4:9,12 If we this day are examined concerning the good deed done to the infirm man, by what means he hath been made whole: . . .

the border.

Numbers 15:38,39 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt tell them to make to themselves fringes in the corners of their garments, putting in them ribands of blue: . . .

Deuteronomy 22:12 Thou shalt make strings in the hem at the four corners of thy cloak, wherewith thou shalt be covered.

Matthew 9:20 And behold a woman who was troubled with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment.

Luke 8:44 She came behind him and touched the hem of his garment: and immediately the issue of her blood stopped.

him.

Context
Jesus Heals at Gennesaret
55And running through that whole country, they began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was. 56And 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.
Cross References
Numbers 15:37
The Lord also said to Moses:

Matthew 9:20
And behold a woman who was troubled with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment.

Matthew 14:36
And they besought him that they might touch but the hem of his garment. And as many as touched, were made whole.

Mark 3:10
For he healed many, so that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had evils.

Mark 6:55
And running through that whole country, they began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.

Mark 6:55
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