Luke 8:48

Daughter The only recorded occasion on which our Lord used that tender word to a woman.

thy faith hath made thee whole Literally, "hath saved thee"Thy faith not the superstitious and surreptitious touch of my tallith'sfringe. Jesus thus compelled her to come forth from her timid enjoyment of a stolen blessing that He might confer on her a deeper and fuller blessing.

go in peace Literally, to,or for peace. Tradition says that the name of this woman was Veronica (Evang. Nicodem.V. 6), and that it was she who gave to our Lord the famous legendary handkerchief to wipe His face on the way to Calvary. At Paneas (Caesarea Philippi) there was a bronze statue which was supposed to be her votive offering, and to represent this scene (Euseb. H. E.vii. 18; Sozomen, H.E.v. 21); and on this account Julian the Apostate or Maximin is said to have destroyed it. All this is very improbable. Early Christian writers were too credulous about these statues. Justin Martyr took a statue of the Sabine god Semo Sancusfor one of Simon Magus.