Mar 6:56 | NET2full | STEP | And wherever he would go — into villages , towns , or countryside —they would place the sick in the marketplaces , and would ask him if they could just touch the edge of his cloak , and all who touched it were healed .

Mark 6:56

56 And wherever he would go—into villages, towns, or countryside—they would place the sick in the marketplaces, ^{▼▼sn The marketplaces (Greek agora) were not only places of trade and commerce in the first century Greco-Roman world. They were places of discussion and dialogue (the “public square”), places of judgment (courts held session there), places for idle people and those seeking work, and places for children to play.} and would ask him if ^{▼▼tn Grk “asked that they might touch.”} they could just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.