If Only I May Touch His Garment, I Shall Be Made Well (Matthew 9:21) No. 1 | Orthodox Christian Accessory | Hardcover Journal

And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.

- Matthew 9:20-22

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Now Elisha died, and they buried him. Then in the following year, the raiding bands from Moab invaded the land. And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, they beheld a lightly armed band of raiders, and cast the man into the tomb of Elisha. When the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood up on his feet.

- 4 Kingdoms 13:20-21 (2 Kings 13:20-21 Masoretic)

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The the Lord said to Moses," Make a serpent for yourself and put it on a signal pole; and it shall be, if a serpent should bite someone, when the one bitten looks at it, he shall live." So Moses made a copper serpent and put it on a signal pole; and it happened, when a serpent bit anyone, and he looked at the copper serpent, he lived.

- Numbers 21:8-9

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And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women, so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them.

- Acts 5:14-15

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Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them. 

- Acts 19:11-12

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She heard that the people of the Jews were sick, and began to hope for the remedy of her own salvation. She arose and ran to the Word and saw Him thronged by the crowd. For those who throng do not believe, those who touch believe. Christ is touched by faith, Christ is seen by faith; He is not touched by the body, He is not perceived by the eyes.

- St Ambrose of Milan

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Uncircumscribed Word of the Father / as we behold the victorious image of Your true incarnation, / not made by hands, but divinely wrought / in Your ineffable and divine dispensation towards us, / we honor it with veneration!

- Kontakion to the Icon-Not-Made-By-Hands of Jesus Christ (commemorated August 16)