The Greek Word Translated "Saved" and "Healed" in the New Testament Is the Exact Same Word

Open your Greek New Testament and look up the word sozo (σῴζω, Strong's G4982).

In John 3:17 — "God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be sozo'd" — most translations render it "saved."

In Mark 5:34 — "your faith has sozo'd you", spoken to a woman healed of a twelve-year bleeding condition — most translations render it "made you well."

Same word. Same author of Scripture. Different English translations — because English has no single word that holds both salvation and physical healing at once. Biblical Greek does: sozo.

The full range of sozo's meaning includes: to save, to rescue from danger, to preserve, to keep safe, to deliver from disease, to make whole, and to heal. It does not separate the spiritual from the physical. From the biblical perspective, those are not different categories of the same provision — they are the same provision, expressed in different dimensions of the same person.

This is confirmed by James 5:15: "The prayer of faith will sozo the sick, and the Lord will raise him up." The salvation word is applied directly to physical sickness.