The entire crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming from Him and healing them all.
Cross References
Matthew 9:21She said to herself, "If only I touch His cloak, I will be healed."
Matthew 14:36and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
Mark 3:10For He had healed so many that all who had diseases were pressing forward to touch Him.
Luke 5:17One day Jesus was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. People had come from Jerusalem and from every village of Galilee and Judea, and the power of the Lord was present for Him to heal the sick.
Luke 6:18They had come to hear Him and to be healed of their diseases, and those troubled by unclean spirits were healed.
Treasury of Scripture
And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
sought.
Numbers 21:8,9
And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live…
2 Kings 13:21
And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
Matthew 9:20,21
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.
Luke 8:45,46
And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? …
Mark 5:30
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?
1 Peter 2:9
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
