Turned (Good News Translation “turned around”) suggests that Jesus turned in the opposite direction from where he was headed, since in verse 20 it is stated that the woman came up from behind him.
The participle seeing her will often be rendered “when he saw her” or “he saw her and said.”
Take heart was used in Matthew 9.2. Elsewhere it is found in the Gospel only in 14.27.
Daughter, as “son” in Matthew 9.2, represents a polite form of address and signifies nothing about the woman’s age. Daughter, as with “son,” may be difficult to translate naturally, as it, too, may give the impression that Jesus was the woman’s father. “Young woman” or “My friend” may be possible, although in some cultures this latter may have romantic connotations and will have to be avoided.
As in Matthew 9.2, the vocative daughter may have to precede Take heart.
Your faith has made you well rules out the possibility of interpreting the miracle as a magic act. It is the word of Jesus in response to the woman’s faith that effects the healing. The sentence can be expressed as “Because you believe, you are cured” or “You are cured because you believed.” Some languages will require an object for “believe,” that is, something or someone she believed in. “Believed that I could cure you” is then possible.
Instantly is literally “from that hour” (see “in that hour” of 8.13), an expression indicating an immediate cure (Good News Translation “At that very moment”; New English Bible “and from that moment”). Elsewhere Matthew uses this expression in 15.28; 17.18; a related construction (“from the sixth hour”) occurs in 27.45. Neither Mark nor Luke uses either of these expressions. Translators can say “right away” or “right then.”
The text uses a passive sentence, was made well. This can also be “was healed,” but often an active sentence is better, as in “became well” (Good News Translation) or “became better.”
Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on the Gospel of Matthew. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1988. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .