“And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.”
He said to her, daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering — the address daughter is as intimate as the father's my little daughter of verse 23 — Jesus claiming her as family in the same moment that her healing is completed. Your faith has healed you — the power went out from Jesus but the healing is attributed to her faith: the power and the faith are both necessary, and the faith is the woman's active contribution. Go in peace: not merely go without the bleeding but go into the shalom — the comprehensive wholeness — of restored relationship with God and community. Be freed from your suffering is the complete declaration: not just the bleeding but the entire twelve-year burden of exclusion and suffering is finished.
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