What does Matthew 9:21 Mean?

Context Summary

No grief appeals to Christ in vain. He always arises to follow. Let us as His disciples ever follow where He leads. We are permitted to be His fellow-workers and to help by our sympathy, prayers, and faith.

This poor woman's faith was very imperfect. She believed that there was virtue in His dress, as the ritualist in the emblems of His death. She cared more for her healing than for the healer. She was full of fear and trembling. But her touch was a magnificent evidence of her faith. It might be as slight as featherdown, but it was enough. Not grasping, but lightly touching!

The incident at first fretted Jairus by its delay; but afterward it helped him. Perhaps it was permitted in order to strengthen his faith and thus prepare him to meet the tidings then upon the way to him. He can awake a girl from death as easily as her mother from sleep at morning prime. Let Jesus take the tiny hands of your children in His. Summon them to life and love! [source]

Chapter Summary: Matthew 9

¹  Jesus heals a paralytic
⁹  calls Matthew from the receipt of custom;
¹⁰  eats with tax collectors and sinners;
¹⁴  defends his disciples for not fasting;
²⁰  cures the sick woman;
²³  raises Jairus' daughter from death;
²⁷  gives sight to two blind men;
³²  heals a mute man possessed of a demon;
³⁶  and has compassion on the multitude