Luke 18:42 English Standard Version (ESV) And Jesus said to him, “Recover your sight; your faith has made you well.”

Other translations replace “well” with saved. Which is it, to be healed or to be saved? It is both if we understand the context properly.

Vine’s Expository Definition of sozo G4982;

“to save,” is used (as with the noun soteria, “salvation”)

(a) of material and temporal deliverance from danger, suffering, etc., e.g.,  (AV, “preserve”);  from sickness, “made… whole” (RV, marg., “saved”);

(b) of the spiritual and eternal salvation granted immediately by God to those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, RV “(those that) were being saved;”  “were we saved;” ; of human agency in this, 

(c) of the present experiences of God’s power to deliver from the bondage of sin, of human agency in this, 

(d) of the future deliverance of believers at the Second Coming of Christ for His saints, being deliverance from the wrath of God to be executed upon the ungodly at the close of this age and from eternal doom, 

(e) of the deliverance of the nation of Israel at the Second Advent of Christ

(f) inclusively for all the blessings bestowed by God on men in Christ, 

(g) of those who endure to the end of the time of the Great Tribulation, 

(h) of the individual believer, who, though losing his reward at the Judgment-Seat of Christ hereafter, will not lose his salvation, 

(i) of the deliverance of the nations at the Millennium.
See Salvation

Salvation is not just one thing. This is a long list of conditions that can be boiled down to one universal understanding. Sozo is to heal what ails us. This sozo is a continual blessing for those in Christ which covers, what ailed us, what ails us, and what will ail us.

What ails us? Sin.

Matthew 1:21 English Standard Version (ESV) She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.

Genesis 49:18 English Standard Version (ESV) I wait for your salvation, O Lord.

Returning once again to definitions let us see what the first use has to reveal. This is the verse where salvation is first used. The Hebrew word translated into English is for “your salvation” and not just salvation alone. The word is yeshuw`ah and is pronounced yesh·ü’·ä. By Jewish tradition the name Yeshua is a man, not an act. What is perhaps more telling is the context upon which the word was used.

Genesis 49:1 English Standard Version (ESV) Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in days to come.

Jacob (Israel) gives a strong prophetic message to all his sons. Verse 18 is a reflection on Dan.

Genesis 49:17-18 English Standard Version (ESV)

¹⁷ Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse’s heels so that his rider falls backward.
¹⁸ I wait for your salvation, O Lord.

The Holy Spirit brings us remembrance of words spoken from Genesis 3.

Genesis 3:15 English Standard Version (ESV) I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

God was speaking to the serpent in this passage.

Mattityahu 1:21 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB) And she shall bear BEN (Son) and you will call SHMO YEHOSHUA because he will bring his people yeshuah (rescue, salvation, deliverance) from their peyshaim (rebellions).

Matthew 1:21 English Standard Version (ESV) She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

What is important here is the connection between the actions of our savior in that the work of the cross was only the first act of salvation and that the process continues. Our Lord sits on the throne of heaven and continues to save us from the attacks of Satan and from our own weaknesses.