What Does Luke 7:50 Mean in the King James?
And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Trust, deliverance, and wholeness form one movement: what reaches you inwardly sends you out restored.
THE MEANING
Your trust brings deliverance into the present; what has been done for you remains true as you go. Peace is the wholeness into which you are sent, holding your way forward.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a past marked by shame can bar you from wholeness: the woman leaves already received and delivered.
THE ROOT
σέσωκέν
sesōken
GROWS FROM
σῴζω
sōzō
to deliver, rescue, preserve, or make whole
The word rendered “saved” belongs to a verb family that also carries rescue, preservation, and healing. Its completed action leaves the woman in a changed state, and the next words send her into wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
sōtēria: deliverance
σωτηρία
This noun names the deliverance that the verse says has already reached her.
sōtēr: deliverer
σωτήρ
This branch names the one who brings about the rescue contained in the verb.
πίστις
pistis
GROWS FROM
πείθω
peithō
to persuade, be persuaded, or trust
The word rendered “faith” belongs to the same family as persuasion and trust. Here it is not merely an inward opinion: it is the reliance through which deliverance takes hold.
ALSO GROWS
peithō: to persuade or be persuaded; to trust
πείθω
The verb gives the word for trust its sense of being persuaded into reliance.
pistos: trustworthy or faithful
πιστός
This branch describes the reliability that makes trust possible.
THE PATTERN
Trust receives deliverance that opens into wholeness.
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:THE THREAD
And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.The verb rendered “saved” here is rendered “made thee whole” there; both verses use the same Greek root, and both join trust with the words “go in peace.” The parallel reveals that deliverance and being made whole belong to one movement.
This reading is from Selah Verse.
You can read any verse this way in the app, keep it as a card, and send it on.
A Bible app where you send verses from your keyboard and in Messages, and every verse has a Deep Dive.
Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us