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Matthew 9:19 Explained in Context

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Verse 19. And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.

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Role in This Section

Reports Jesus and disciples rising to follow the ruler.

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  • Matthew 9:18–9:26

Read Matthew 9:19 with 9:18–9:26. In isolation, this verse's contribution—reports Jesus and disciples rising to follow the ruler—can be detached from its speaker, audience, narrative or teaching sequence, and outcome. The complete unit establishes: A ruler asks help for his dead daughter, a woman bleeding twelve years reaches for Jesus' garment and is called daughter, and Jesus takes the girl by the hand and raises her.

Why It Needs Context

Reports Jesus and disciples rising to follow the ruler. Its force depends on the complete movement and outcome of Matthew 9:18–9:26; the isolated line is connective rather than a complete teaching claim.

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Read Matthew 9:18–9:26 — A girl and a bleeding woman receive restored life
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How certain is this explanation? strong

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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society

USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and thought-unit coverage.

Exact location: Matthew 9:18–9:26, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus

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Greek textual evidence

The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition

Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos

Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010

Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control without treating one edition as a complete apparatus.

Exact location: SBLGNT official text file data/sblgnt/text/Matt.txt, Matthew 9:18–9:26

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