29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.



30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?



Ver. 30. That virtue had gone out of him] As heat goeth out of the sun into the air, water, earth, earthly bodies, and yet remains in the sun; so here. Salient; aquarum font; undas si tollas, nec exhauritur, nec extenuatur, sed dulcescit; scientia, etiam docendi officio, dulcedinem sentiat, non sentiat minutias. A fountain is not drawn dry, but cleared; so skill is not lost by communicating it to others, but increased.