the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Mateo 8:5
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entered: Matthew 4:13, Matthew 9:1, Matthew 11:23, Mark 2:1, Luke 7:1
a centurion: This was a Roman military title; and therefore this officer may be concluded to have been a Gentile. - See fuller particulars under Mark 15:39. Matthew 27:54, Mark 15:39, Luke 7:2-10, Acts 10:1-33, Acts 22:25, Acts 23:17, Acts 23:23, Acts 27:13, Acts 27:31, Acts 27:43
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:41 - a stranger Matthew 10:42 - one Luke 3:14 - the soldiers Luke 7:3 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum,.... Was returned from his journey through Galilee, to the place where he before dwelt, and is called his own city, Matthew 9:1
there came unto him a centurion, a Roman officer, שר מאה, "a commander of an hundred men", as the Hebrew Gospel by Munster reads it: though the number of men under a "centurion" was more, according to some accounts.
"A band (it is said g) made two centuries, each of which consisted of an hundred and twenty eight soldiers; for a doubled century made a band, whose governor was called an ordinary "centurion".''
Such an one was Cornelius, a centurion of a band, Acts 10:1. The other person that was healed was a Jew. The next instance of Christ's power and goodness is the servant of a Gentile; he came to do good both to Jews and Gentiles;
beseeching him, not in person, but by his messengers; see Luke 7:3 and the Jews h say, ששלוחו של אדם כמותו, "that a man's messenger is as himself".
g Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 6. c. 13. h T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 34. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Capernaum - See the notes at Matthew 4:13.
There came unto him a centurion - A centurion was the commander of 100 men in the Roman armies. Judea was a Roman province, and garrisons were kept there to preserve the people in subjection. This man was probably by birth a pagan. See Matthew 8:10.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 8:5. Capernaum — Matthew 4:13; Matthew 4:13.
A centurion — εκατονταρχος. A Roman military officer who had the command of one hundred men.
