Wherever he went—into villages, cities, or the country—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might just touch the fringe of his cloak. And all who touched him were healed.
Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the empire, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
As a result, people carried the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on some of them.
While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, YHWH’s anger burned against the people, and YHWH struck the people with a very great plague.