“And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?”
You see the people crowding against you, his disciples answered, and yet you can ask, who touched me? — the disciples' response is practically reasonable and theologically obtuse. Of course people are pressing against you in a crowd; of course there have been many accidental contacts. The disciples cannot understand why a touch in this crowd is significant. Their response exposes the gap between their perception (crowd pressing = normal contact) and Jesus' perception (something different happened). The disciples are not wrong about the physical facts; they are wrong about the theological significance of what has just occurred.
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