So I was just reading a couple passages in the Bible and in Matthew 9:20, it says “And behold, a woman who had suffered from a discharge of blood for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment, for she said to herself, ‘If i only touch his garment, I will be made well.’” I instantly thought of being in class listening to Sam Cooke’s song “Touch the Hem of His Garment” and Dr. C. telling us the story behind the song - how the woman was so desperate to touch the hem of Jesus’s robe because it would heal her and “make her whole”, which is the same story being described in this passage. It was just one of those moments where you go “woah! that’s really cool!” I mean, I knew that soul music is gospel-derived, but there are Sam Cooke’s lyrics directly out of the Bible!