Mateus 9:20-21

A hemorrhage is an uncontrolled bleeding. This woman had suffered with one somewhere in her body for 12 years. Many commentators assume it had some connection with her reproductive system. In any case bleeding rendered a Jewish person ritually unclean (cf. Leviticus 15:19-33). She should have kept away from other people and not touched them since by doing so she made them unclean. However hope of healing led her to push her way through the crowd so that she might touch Jesus. She apparently believed that since Jesus’ touch healed people, if she touched Him she would get the same result. The fringe of Jesus’ cloak (Matthew 9:20) was probably one of the four tassels that the Jews wore on the four corners of their cloaks to remind them to obey God’s commands (Numbers 15:37-41; Deuteronomy 22:12; cf. Matthew 23:5).