Matthew 9:20

And behold, a woman, who had an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the border of his garment.

This remarkable case was mentioned by Eusebius, whose remarks quoted by Dummelow are:

She was a heathen living at Caesarea Philippi, near the sources of the Jordan. Her house is shown in the city ... and at the gates of which, on an elevated stone stands a brazen statue of a woman on her bended knee, with her hands stretched out before her like one entreating. Opposite to this is another statue of a man, erect, of the same materials, decently clad in a mantle, and stretching out his hand to the woman. This statue, they said, was a likeness of Jesus Christ.[3]

The so-called Report of the Procurator Concerning Our Lord Jesus Christ contains this:

And a woman that had an issue of blood for many years, and whose joints and veins were drained by the flowing of the blood, so that she did not present the appearance of a human being, but was like a corpse, and was speechless every day, so that all the physicians of the district could not cure her (was in such a condition) that there was not any hope of life left to her. And when Jesus passed by, she mysteriously received strength through his overshadowing her; and she took hold of his fringe behind; and, immediately in the same hour, power filled up what was in her empty, so that, no longer suffering any pain, she began to run swiftly to her own city Kepharnaum, so as to accomplish the journey in six days.[4]

Perhaps these ancient quotations have little value, but they serve to focus a little further attention on this wonderful deed which came as a parenthesis in the more important miracle of the raising of Jairus' daughter.

[3] J. R. Dummelow, One Volume Commentary (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937), p. 659.

[4] Pontius Pilate, quoted in ancient writings, The Ante-Nicene Fathers, (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1951), Vol. VIII, p. 460.