Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 7:50

"And he said unto the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace." — Luke 7:50 (ASV)

Your faith has saved you.—From the merely controversial point of view, these words have value in ascribing the justification or salvation of the woman to faith, and not to love. Those who go deeper than controversy will find in them the further lesson that love presupposes faith. We cannot love anyone—not even God—unless we first trust Him as being worthy of our love. She trusted that the Prophet of Nazareth would not scorn or reject her, and therefore she loved Him, showed her love in acts, and, in loving Him, she loved, consciously or unconsciously, the Father who had sent Him.

Go in peace.—The Greek form is somewhat more expressive than the English. Our idiom hardly allows us to say, “Go into peace,” and yet that is the exact meaning of the original. “Peace” is like a new home to which the penitent is directed to turn as to a place of refuge.