Luke 7:5

New Century Version

He loves our people, and he built us a synagogue."

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
He loves our people and he built the synagogue for us."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For he loveth oure nacion and hath bilt vs a sinagoge

Hebrew Names Version
for he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us."

International Standard Version
because he loves our people and built our synagogue for us."

New American Standard Bible
for he loves our nation, and it was he who built us our synagogue."

Update Bible Version
for he loves our nation, and himself built us our synagogue.

Webster's Bible Translation
For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.

Amplified Bible
because he loves our nation and he built us our synagogue [at his own expense]."

English Standard Version
for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue."

World English Bible
for he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For he loveth our nation, and hath himself built us a synagogue.

Weymouth's New Testament
for he loves our nation, and at his own expense he built our synagogue for us."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for he loueth oure folk, and he bildide to vs a synagoge.

English Revised Version
for he loveth our nation, and himself built us our synagogue.

Berean Standard Bible
for he loves our nation and has built our synagogue."

Contemporary English Version
He loves our nation and even built us a meeting place."

American Standard Version
for he loveth our nation, and himself built us our synagogue.

Bible in Basic English
It is right for you to do this for him, because he is a friend to our nation, and himself has put up a Synagogue for us.

Complete Jewish Bible
for he loves our people — in fact, he built the synagogue for us!"

Darby Translation
for he loves our nation, and himself has built the synagogue for us.

Etheridge Translation
for he loveth our people, and also a synagogue [fn] he hath built for us.

Murdock Translation
for he loveth our nation, and hath also built us a house of assembly.

King James Version (1611)
For he loueth our nation, and hee hath built vs a Synagogue.

New Living Translation
"for he loves the Jewish people and even built a synagogue for us."

New Life Bible
He loves our nation and has built our Jewish place of worship."

New Revised Standard
for he loves our people, and it is he who built our synagogue for us."

Geneva Bible (1587)
For he loueth, said they, our nation, and he hath built vs a Synagogue.

George Lamsa Translation
For he loves our people, and has even built us a synagogue.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
for he loveth our nation, and, the synagogue, he, built for us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he loveth our nation: and he hath built us a synagogue.

Revised Standard Version
for he loves our nation, and he built us our synagogue."

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For he loueth our nation, and hath built vs a synagogue.

Good News Translation
He loves our people and he himself built a synagogue for us."

Christian Standard Bible®
because he loves our nation and has built us a synagogue.”

King James Version
For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.

Lexham English Bible
because he loves our nation and he himself built the synagogue for us."

Literal Translation
For he loves our nation, and he built the synagogue for us.

Young's Literal Translation
for he doth love our nation, and the synagogue he did build to us.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for he loueth oure people, & hath buylded vs ye synagoge.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and hath built us a synagogue at his own charge.

New English Translation
because he loves our nation, and even built our synagogue."

New King James Version
"for he loves our nation, and has built us a synagogue."

Simplified Cowboy Version
The marshal has done a lot for our country and he has helped build some of our churches."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
for he loves our nation and it was he who built us our synagogue."

Legacy Standard Bible
for he loves our nation and it was he who built us our synagogue."

Contextual Overview

¹ When Jesus finished saying all these things to the people, he went to Capernaum. ² There was an army officer who had a servant who was very important to him. The servant was so sick he was nearly dead. ³ When the officer heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him to ask Jesus to come and heal his servant. ⁴ The men went to Jesus and begged him, saying, "This officer is worthy of your help. ⁵ He loves our people, and he built us a synagogue." ⁶ So Jesus went with the men. He was getting near the officer's house when the officer sent friends to say, "Lord, don't trouble yourself, because I am not worthy to have you come into my house. ⁷ That is why I did not come to you myself. But you only need to command it, and my servant will be healed. ⁸ I, too, am a man under the authority of others, and I have soldiers under my command. I tell one soldier, ‘Go,' and he goes. I tell another soldier, ‘Come,' and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,' and my servant does it." ⁹ When Jesus heard this, he was amazed. Turning to the crowd that was following him, he said, "I tell you, this is the greatest faith I have found anywhere, even in Israel." ¹⁰ Those who had been sent to Jesus went back to the house where they found the servant in good health.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he loveth: 1 Kings 5:1, 2 Chronicles 2:11, 2 Chronicles 2:12, Galatians 5:6, 1 John 3:14, 1 John 5:1-3

and: 1 Chronicles 29:3-9, Ezra 7:27, Ezra 7:28, 1 John 3:18, 1 John 3:19

Reciprocal: Acts 10:2 - which Acts 10:22 - of good

Cross-References

Genesis 6:22
Noah did everything that God commanded him.

Exodus 39:32
So all the work on the Meeting Tent was finished. The Israelites did everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:16
Moses did everything that the Lord commanded him.

Psalms 119:6
Then I would not be ashamed when I study your commands.

Matthew 3:15
Jesus answered, "Let it be this way for now. We should do all things that are God's will." So John agreed to baptize Jesus.

Luke 8:21
Jesus answered them, "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's teaching and obey it!"

John 2:5
His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you to do."

John 13:17
If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

Philippians 2:8
And when he was living as a man, he humbled himself and was fully obedient to God, even when that caused his death—death on a cross.

Hebrews 5:8
Even though Jesus was the Son of God, he learned obedience by what he suffered.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he loveth our nation,.... The Jewish nation, which was Christ's nation, as well as theirs, he being a Jew; see John 18:35. This they mention as an argument to induce him to have a regard to the centurion, though he was a Gentile; since he was a friend of the Jews, and well affected and disposed to them, which was very rare: it was not common for the Gentiles to love the Jews, any more than the Jews the Gentiles; there was an hatred, yea, an enmity between them; but this man, very likely, was a proselyte to their religion, as the following instance seems to show:

and he hath built us a synagogue; at his own private charge, and by the assistance of his soldiers under him, whom he might employ in this work: sometimes a single person built a synagogue at his own expense, and gave it to the citizens; of which the Jews say, o

"if a man builds an house, and afterwards devotes it to a synagogue, it is as a synagogue.''

o Piske Harosh Megilia, c. 4. art. 1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 7:5. He loveth our nation — He is a warm friend to the Jews; and has given a full proof of his affection to them in building them a synagogue. This he had done at his own proper charges; having no doubt employed his own men in the work.