Luke 7:3

Syriac Peshitta (NT Only)

ܘܰܫܡܰܥ ܥܰܠ ܝܶܫܽܘܥ ܘܫܰܕ݁ܰܪ ܠܘܳܬ݂ܶܗ ܩܰܫܺܝܫܶܐ ܕ݁ܺܝܗܽܘܕ݂ܳܝܶܐ ܘܒ݂ܳܥܶܐ ܗ݈ܘܳܐ ܡܶܢܶܗ ܐܰܝܟ݂ ܕ݁ܢܺܐܬ݂ܶܐ ܢܰܚܶܐ ܠܥܰܒ݂ܕ݁ܶܗ ܀

Bible Verse Review
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Luke 8:41, Luke 9:38, Matthew 8:5, John 4:47, Philemon 1:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 23:8 - entreat 1 Kings 14:3 - he shall tell Mark 5:23 - besought Luke 4:38 - they 1 Thessalonians 5:13 - and be James 5:16 - Confess

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when he heard of Jesus,.... That he was come, as the Ethiopic version adds, into the city of Capernaum; or of his miracles, which he had done there, and elsewhere:

he sent unto him the elders of the Jews: in whom he had an interest, judging himself, being a Gentile, very unworthy and unfit to go himself, and ask a favour of so great a person as Christ was, such was his modesty and humility. These elders he sent, were not the more ancient inhabitants of the city, called זקני עם הארץ, "the elders of, or among the common people", as distinguished from זקני תורה, "the elders of the law", or those that were old in knowledge; of both which it is said by R. Simeon ben Achasia m, that

"the elders of the common people, when they grow old, their knowledge fails in them, as it is said, John 12:20 but so it is not with the "elders of the law"; but when they grow old, their knowledge rests in them, as it is said,

Job 12:12.''

But these were either some principal officers of the city, called the elders of the people elsewhere; particularly, who were members of the sanhedrim; for as elders, when they design the elders in Jerusalem, mean the great sanhedrim n there; so elders, in other places, intend the sanhedrim, consisting of twenty one persons, or the bench of three; and such were these, the centurion sent to Christ:

beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant: he besought him most earnestly by these messengers, that he would come to his house, and cure his servant of the palsy, by laying his hands on him, or commanding the distemper off, by a word speaking; or in what way he should think fit, for he made no doubt that he was able to heal him.

m Misn. Kenim, c. 3. sect. 6. n T. Hieros. Sota, fol. 23. 3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 7:3. Elders of the Jews — These were either magistrates in the place, or the elders of the synagogue which the centurion had built, Luke 7:5. He sent these, probably, because he was afraid to come to Christ himself, not being a Jew, either by nation or religion. In the parallel place in Matthew, he is represented as coming to Christ himself; but it is a usual form of speech in all nations, to attribute the act to a person which is done not by himself, but by his authority.