Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 9:21

21 For she said within her self, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.

Mark addeth Ch. 5.26. that she had suffered many things of many Physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse; when she had heard of Iesus, she came in the press behind, and touched his Garment, &c. Luke saith, the Border of his Garment. In the Croud there cometh a Woman, that had a bloody Flux twelve years. Inveterate Diseases are hard to be cured, nor had means been neglected, she had tryed many Physicians, and had spent all her Estate upon them. She came behind him, out of Modesty, and perhaps Shame, desiring not be taken notice of. That which induced her to come, was the Fame she had heard of Iesus, and a persuasion wrought in her Heart, (doubtless by the Spirit of God) that if she could but come to touch the Hem or Border of his Garment, she should be cured. In this she judged rightly, that Christ was all Vertue, and that his Virtue was not restrained to his laying his hand upon her. She believed that the Oyl powred on his Head, was like that powred on the Head of Aaron, which ran down to the Skirts of his Garment: But if she thought that she could thus steal a Cure▪ and that Christs Cures Flowed not from his Grace and good Will, but a kind of necessity, herein she wonderfully Erred, and Christ afterward let her know it, tho he pardoned her Mistake.