What Does Luke 7:50 Mean?

And he said to the woman, The leaning of your full weight has delivered you; go into wholeness.

Luke 7:50 · SDV

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King James Version

And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.

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

“delivered” in this verse is sesōken. 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 leaning of your full weight” in this verse is pistis. 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.

You will keep in wholeness upon wholeness the one whose shaped mind rests upon you, for in you he leans his full weight.

Isaiah 26:3 · SDVTrust and settled peace appear together, as in the woman’s trust and her departure into peace.

Therefore, aligned through trust, we have wholeness with God through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One.

Romans 5:1 · SDVTrust is joined to peace, echoing the movement from the woman’s deliverance into wholeness.

For by favor you have been delivered through leaning your full weight, and this is not from yourselves; it is the gift of God.

Ephesians 2:8 · SDVDeliverance is received through trust, rather than produced by the person receiving it.

THE THREAD

And he said to her, Daughter, take heart. Your trust has delivered you. Go into wholeness.

Luke 8:48 · SDV

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.

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