Luke 8:48

‘And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you whole, go in peace.” '

And Jesus looked at her and said, “Daughter, your faith has made you whole, go in peace.” He wanted her to know that it was because of her faith in Him that her sin was forgiven (go in peace) and she was whole.

‘Your faith has made you whole.' As she had reached out to God through Him in faith she had been made whole. She had been ‘saved'. He wanted her to know that He was not just some relic that was seen as containing special superstitious powers, but that God had reached out to her personally through Him. That is indeed how all men can be made whole. Then He assured her that her curse had been removed once for all. Once again Jesus has demonstrated that He has power to cleanse the ‘unclean' without Himself being rendered unclean (compare on Luke 1:42). He is the Holy One of God.

‘Go in peace.' A recognised way of giving assurance (e.g. Exo 4:18; 1 Samuel 1:17; 1 Samuel 29:7; 2 Samuel 15:9; Luke 7:50; Acts 16:36).

So this woman who had been unclean for twelve years, can be seen as a picture of God's people of whom Isaiah says, ‘we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like menstrual rags' (Isaiah 64:6), whom the Bridegroom has come to claim for Himself as depicted in Ezekiel 16. God's people are being offered another chance as Ezekiel promised would happen in the last days (Ezekiel 16:60). We can compare here the sinful woman in Luke 7:36. She too had been a picture of adulterous Israel.