Luke 7:5

New Living Translation

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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."

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.

Easy-to-Read Version
He loves our people and he built the 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.

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

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.

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.

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."

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.

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

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

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.

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."

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."

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."

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

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.

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

Contextual Overview

¹ When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people, he returned to Capernaum. ² At that time the highly valued slave of a Roman officer was sick and near death. ³ When the officer heard about Jesus, he sent some respected Jewish elders to ask him to come and heal his slave. ⁴ So they earnestly begged Jesus to help the man. "If anyone deserves your help, he does," they said, ⁵ "for he loves the Jewish people and even built a synagogue for us." ⁶ So Jesus went with them. But just before they arrived at the house, the officer sent some friends to say, "Lord, don't trouble yourself by coming to my home, for I am not worthy of such an honor. ⁷ I am not even worthy to come and meet you. Just say the word from where you are, and my servant will be healed. ⁸ I know this because I am under the authority of my superior officers, and I have authority over my soldiers. I only need to say, ‘Go,' and they go, or ‘Come,' and they come. And if I say to my slaves, ‘Do this,' they do it." ⁹ When Jesus heard this, he was amazed. Turning to the crowd that was following him, he said, "I tell you, I haven't seen faith like this in all Israel!" ¹⁰ And when the officer's friends returned to his house, they found the slave completely healed.

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
So Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him.

Exodus 39:32
And so at last the Tabernacle was finished. The Israelites had done everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:16
Moses proceeded to do everything just as the Lord had commanded him.

Psalms 119:6
Then I will not be ashamed when I compare my life with your commands.

Matthew 3:15
But Jesus said, "It should be done, for we must carry out all that God requires." So John agreed to baptize him.

Luke 8:21
Jesus replied, "My mother and my brothers are all those who hear God's word and obey it."

John 2:5
But his mother told the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

John 13:17
Now that you know these things, God will bless you for doing them.

Philippians 2:8
he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal's death on a cross.

Hebrews 5:8
Even though Jesus was God's Son, he learned obedience from the things 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.