ἐπιγνοὺς τὴν … δύναμιν ἐξελθοῦσαν, conscious of the going forth of the healing virtue; ἐξελθ. is the substantive participle as object of the verb ἐπιγνοὺς. The statement as given by Mk. (and Lk.) implies that the cure was not wrought by the will of Jesus. But it may nevertheless have been so. Jesus may have felt the touch, divined its meaning, and consented to the effect. Vide on Mt., ad loc, τίς f1μου ἥψατο τῶν ἱματίων : who touched me on my clothes? This verb here, as usual, takes genitive both of person and thing (Buttmann's Grammar, N. T., p. 167).

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Old Testament