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Mat_14:36. Summary statement, as in Mat_4:24.
παρεκάλ .] descriptive imperfect.
κρασπέδου ] See note on Mat_9:20. They wanted merely to touch Him, as in Mat_9:21.
διεσώθησαν ] were completely saved (Xen. Mem. ii. 10. 2; Luk_7:3), so that they quite recovered from their ailments, and that, according to the analogy of the other miracles of healing, just at once. Hilgenfeld is wrong in supposing that this took place “without the medium of faith;” as a matter of course, faith was implied in their very παρακαλεῖν .