What Does Luke 8:48 Mean?
And he said to her, Daughter, take heart. Your trust has delivered you. Go into wholeness.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.THE KEY
The verse joins trust to deliverance: healing is a bringing through that opens into wholeness.
THE MEANING
Trust is met here as lived reliance, and deliverance reaches the body as healing. “Daughter” speaks belonging into the moment; “go in peace” sends the restored person into wholeness that continues beyond the healing itself.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that physical healing can leave someone outside belonging and peace: “Daughter” and “go in peace” hold restoration as bodily and relational.
THE ROOT
σέσωκέν
sesōken
GROWS FROM
σῴζω
sōzō
To deliver, bring out of danger, preserve; in a healing context, to restore to health.
“delivered you” in this verse is sesōken. The verb is perfect in form, presenting the deliverance as accomplished with its result continuing. This word family speaks of both rescue and healing, so being made whole carries the sense of being brought safely through.
ALSO GROWS
sōtēria: deliverance, rescue
σωτηρία
This related noun names rescue as deliverance, revealing the larger movement contained in being made whole.
sōtēr: deliverer, rescuer
σωτήρ
This related noun names the one who brings someone through danger, connecting healing with rescue.
πίστις
pístis
GROWS FROM
πείθω
peíthō
To persuade, be persuaded, trust.
This word belongs to the trust and being-persuaded family, not mere intellectual agreement. Here it names lived reliance joined to the deliverance just described.
ALSO GROWS
pisteúō: trust, entrust oneself
πιστεύω
The verb form makes trust an act of reliance, illuminating the personal relation named in the verse.
pistós: firm, steady, trustworthy
πιστός
This related word carries the sense of steadiness that gives trust its weight.
εἰρήνην
eirēnēn
GROWS FROM
εἰρήνη
eirēnē
Peace, wholeness.
“go into wholeness” in this verse is eirēnēn. Jesus sends her into peace as the next state of her life, joining healing to the wholeness she now enters. The wording makes peace more than a courteous farewell: it is where the restored person goes.
ALSO GROWS
eirēneúō: live in peace, be at peace
εἰρηνεύω
This related verb describes peace as a lived condition, extending the verse’s sending into an ongoing life.
eirēnopoiós: peacemaker
εἰρηνοποιός
This related word shows the same family can name one who brings peace into being, echoing the movement toward wholeness.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance restores the whole person and opens a life marked by wholeness.
He sends his word and heals them, and slips them free from their pits.Jesus said to him, Go on your way; your full weight leaning has delivered you. At once he looked up again and followed Jesus on the way.Wholeness I leave with you; my wholeness I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be stirred, and do not let it shrink.THE THREAD
Wholeness I leave with you; my wholeness I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be stirred, and do not let it shrink.The shared Greek word εἰρήνη (eirēnē, peace and wholeness) appears in both verses. “Go in peace” names the wholeness the healed woman enters, the same gift Jesus describes as given to his hearers.
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