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Matthew 8:5,6
The Centurion of Capernaum.
v. 5. And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto Him a centurion, beseeching Him,
The Centurion of Capernaum.
v. 5. And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto Him a centurion, beseeching Him,
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_....
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...
6. THE KING MANIFESTED BY SIGNS OF DIVINE POWER. Chapter s 8-9. CHAPTER 8 1. The Healing of the Leper. (Matthew 8:1 .) 2. The Healing of the Centurion's Servant. (Matthew 8:5 .) 3. The Healing of P...
THE CENTURION'S SERVANT (Luke 7:1; Luke 13:28 f.; _cf._ John 4:46 to John 5:3). Lk.'s version immediately follows his account of the sermon; probably it was so in Q. Mt.
THE CENTURION'S FAITH. -- Matthew 8:5-13. GOLDEN TEXT. --_. have not found so great faith, no not in Israel._ -- Matthew 8:10. TIME. --A. D. 28. PLACE. --Capernaum. HELPFUL READINGS. -- Matth
When Jesus had come into Capernaum, a centurion came to him. "Lord, he appealed to him, "my servant lies at home, paralysed, suffering terribly" He said to him: "Am I to come and cure him?" "Lord, ans...
LOVE IN ACTION (Matthew 8:1-34) Of all the gospel writers Matthew is the most orderly. He never sets out his material haphazardly. If in Matthew one thing follows another in a certain sequence, there...
CAPERNAUM. See note on Matthew 4:13, and App-169. THERE CAME, &C. This is in connection with the same centurion as in Luke 7:3; Luke 7:6, but on. prior occasion. See notes there. CENTURION. Commandin...
_a centurion_ i. e. a captain or commander of a century a company normally composed of a hundred men, the sixtieth part of a legion in the Roman army. This centurion was probably an officer in the arm...
Cure of a Centurion's Servant St Luke 7:1-10, where the incident is placed immediately after the Sermon on the Mount. The centurion sends a deputation of Jewish elders to Jesus, who speak of the wort...
ἙΚΑΤΌΝΤΑΡΧΟΣ, i.e. a captain or commander of a century—a company nominally composed of a hundred men, the sixtieth part of a legion in the Roman army. This centurion was probably an officer in the arm...
CURE OF A CENTURION’S SERVANT St Luke 7:1-10, where the incident is placed immediately after the Sermon on the Mount. The centurion sends a deputation of Jewish elders to Jesus, who speak of the worth...
Ver 5. And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, 6. And saying, "Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented." 7. And Jesus...
_SOME MIRACLES OF JESUS MATTHEW 8:1-15:_ In Matthew 8:1-4 the great multitudes followed him. They did not follow Him with their hearts but they walked along with Him. A leper came in faith to the only...
ΕΊΣΕΛΘΌΝΤΟΣ _aor. act. part. gen. masc. sing. от_ ΕΙΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1525) приходить, входить. Temp. _part. gen. abs._ ΠΡΟΣΉΛΘΕ Ν _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G4334). ΕΚΑΤΌΝΤΑΡΧΟΣ (G1543) командир сот...
AND WHEN JESUS WAS ENTERED INTO CAPERNAUM— St. Luke has related this part of the evangelical history more at large than St. Matthew.The whole may be thus connected: Jesus, having finished his sermon o...
Section 13 JESUS HEALS A CENTURION'S SERVANT (Parallel: Luke 7:1-10) TEXT: 8:5-13 5. And when he was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, 6. and saying, Lord,...
And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, This incident belongs to a later stage. For the exposition, see the notes at Luke 7:1....
5-13 Compare Luk_7:1-10. 5 This is followed by an intimation that, though rejected by His own, He would be accepted by the nations, as is the case in the book of Acts. The priest was at one end of the...
8:5 entered (g-5) Many authorities read, 'as he entered.'...
THE LEPER CLEANSED. THE CENTURION'S SERVANT HEALED. HEALING OF PETER'S WIFE'S MOTHER AND MANY OTHERS. STILLING OF THE TEMPEST. HEALING OF THE GADARENE DEMONIACS 1-4. Cleansing of the leper (Mark 1:40;...
A CENTURION] A Roman legionary officer commanding a century (i.e. from 50 to 100 men, the hundredth part of a legion), and occupying the social position of a modern sergeant or non-commissioned office...
HEALING OF THE CENTURION'S SERVANT (Luke 7:1, not, however, John 4:47, q. v.). The accounts in St. Matthew and St. Luke are partly drawn from independent sources, which, though agreeing in essentials,...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 8 *MIRACLES WHEN JESUS HEALED PEOPLE 8:1–9:38 Matthew showed Jesus’ authority by what he taught in Chapter s 5-7. Now Matthew shows...
In St. Luke the narrative follows immediately upon the Sermon on the Plain; in St. Matthew (the healing of the leper intervening), upon the Sermon on the Mount. The juxtaposition in both cases seems t...
CHAPTER 8 The Signs of the Kingdom - Matthew 8:1 - Matthew 9:1 REFERRING to Matthew 4:23, we find the work of Christ at the beginning of His ministry summarised as teaching and preaching and healing...
_The centurion's son or servant_ (Luke 7:1-10). Placed by both Matthew and Luke after Sermon on Mount, by the latter immediately after....
εἰσελθόντος, aorist participle with another finite verb, pointing to a completed action. He had entered Capernaum when the following event happened. Observe the genitive absolute again with a dative o...
REWARDS OF FAITH Matthew 8:1-10 The Lord can touch thy heart, leprous with impurity, and make its stain depart, so that, as in the case of Naaman, its foulness shall become like “unto the flesh of a...
The King passed down from the mountain and from teaching in order that He might bring the Kingdom nearer to His people, and give them examples of its benefits. What a wondrous application of His power...
(2) And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, (2) Christ by setting before them the example of the uncircumcised centurion and yet of an excellent fa...
A centurion. The same who (Luke vii. 3,) is said to have sent messengers to our Saviour. But there is no contradiction: for what a man does by his servants, or friends, he is many times said to do him...
CHAPTER 28 JESUS HOMELESS Matthew 8:1-22, & Luke 9:57-62. “And it came to pass, they journeying on the way, a certain one said to Him, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou mayest go, Lord; and Jesus...
HEALING OF THE CENTURION'S SERVANT Matthew 8:5-13, and Luke 7:1-10. We see here a clear confirmation that the Mount of Beatitudes, on which the sermon was preached, is not Mt. Hattin, west of Tiberias...
We have here another of CHRIST'S. miracles. Capernaum was a city of Galilee, not far from Nazareth. A centurion was an officer among the Romans. This man had a servant sick, of the palsy. Luke, in his...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
Matthew 8:5._And when Jesus had entered _Those who think that Matthew and Luke give different narratives, are led into a mistake by a mere trifle. The only difference in the words is, that Matthew say...
Then, in chapter 8, the Lord begins in the midst of Israel His patient life of testimony, which closed with His rejection by the people whom God had so long preserved for Him, and for their own blessi...
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 CENTURI...
And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, Ver. 5. _There came unto him a centurion_] _Rarior est virtus veniens e corpore raro._ Soldiers are commonl...
_There came unto him a centurion_ A captain of a hundred Roman soldiers, in Herod's pay; _saying, My servant lieth sick of the palsy, grievously tormented_ Or, _afflicted_, as the word βασανιζομενος o...
CENTURION; a Roman officer who had command of a "century," consisting generally of about a hundred men....
Now the King comes down among the people from the height from which He had given them wise instruction. For He is not only their teacher: He will experience their sorrows, and show His heart of compas...
5-13 This centurion was a heathen, a Roman soldier. Though he was a soldier, yet he was a godly man. No man's calling or place will be an excuse for unbelief and sin. See how he states his servant's...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 8:10"....
Tertullian On Idolatry albeit, likewise, a centurion had believed;[159] Tertullian Against the Valentinians ) than he runs to him with haste and joy, with all his might, like the centurion in the G...
Matthew 8:5 Now G1161 when G1525 Jesus G2424 entered G1525 (G5631) G1519 Capernaum G2584 centurion G1543 came...
‘And when he was entered into Capernaum, there came to him a centurion, beseeching him, and saying, “Lord, my servant lies in the house sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.” ' Jesus now entered Ca...
JESUS REVEALS HIMSELF AS THE COMING ONE BY HIS ACTS OF POWER AND PROCLAMATION OF THE GOOD NEWS (8:1-9). In Matthew 11:4 Jesus sends to a doubting John in prison these words, ‘Tell John the things whic...
THE CENTURION'S SERVANT (8:5-13). Jesus' first miracle had been on one who was skin-diseased, an outcast from society, one who was unclean and rendered all who came in contact with him as unclean. And...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
ON OUR LORD'S MIRACLES. The Greek word translated miracle means literally ‘power'; the idea of wondering underlies our word miracle. A miracle is therefore some wonderful display of power; the special...
Matthew 8:5-13. THE HEALING OF THE CENTURION'S SERVANT. Compare the fuller account in Luke 7:1-10. This miracle must not be confounded with the healing of the nobleman's son (John 4:47-53) in the same...
UNTO HIM (αυτω). Dative in spite of the genitive absolute εισελθοντος αυτου as in verse Matthew 8:1, a not infrequent Greek idiom, especially in the _koine_....
CENTURION A Roman commander of 100 men....
Matthew 8:1. _When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. And, behold, there came a leper_ You see that particular mention is made of this one special case, and, in any co...
Matthew 8:1. _When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him._ There was a charm about his preaching, not that he modified his doctrine, or that he cut down his precepts; he s...
Matthew 8:1. _When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him,_ Great multitudes often count for nothing; it is here or ther...
CONTENTS: Jesus heals a leper, the centurion's servant and Peter's wife's mother. Professed disciples tested. Stilling of the waves. Casting-out demons at Gadara. CHARACTERS: Jesus, leper, centurion...
Matthew 8:2. _Behold, there came a leper and worshipped him._ After having preached his sermon, and discovered his doctrine, says Jerome, an opportunity presented itself of displaying miracles, thereb...
WHEN JESUS ENTERED CAPERNAUM. See note on Matthew 4:13. He returned to the place he made his home after the Sermon on the Mount, and the healing of the leper. _Compare_ Luke 7:1-10. A ROMAN OFFICER ME...
_There came unto Him a centurion, beseeching Him._ I. The applicant. He was a centurion, etc. He was a Gentile, and not of the house of Israel. His profession was unfavourable to piety. II. The suit...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 8:5 CENTURION. A Roman officer in charge of a hundred men. In the account of this miracle in Luke 7:1, others came to Jesus on the centurion’s behalf, bu
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 8:1 The Authoritative Power of the Messiah: Kingdom Power Demonstrated. Jesus has shown himself to be the Messiah through his teaching (chs. Matthew 5:1
A CENTURION ASKS JESUS TO HEAL HIS SERVANT MATTHEW 8:5-13; LUKE 7:2-10 Luke 7:2 And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die....
CHAPTER 8 Ver. 2. _And, behold, a leper,_ &c. This same miracle is related by S. Mark (Mar 1:40), and by Luke (Luke 5:12). From a comparison of these it would seem to follow that the miracle was not p...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 8:5. A CENTURION.—_I.e_. a captain or commander of a century—a company normally composed of a hundred men, the sixtieth part of a legion in the Roman army. This centurion was...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 8:1 MESSIAH'S WORK AS COMPLEMENTARY TO HIS TEACHING. We return in this section to matter which resembles that of Mark and Luke, and undoubtedly belongs to the Framework (_vide _I...
Let's turn to Matthew's gospel chapter eight. The fifth chapter of Matthew begins "And seeing the multitude, he went into a mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: And he open...
Acts 10:1; Acts 22:25; Acts 23:17; Acts 23:23; Acts 27:13;...
THE MIRACLE-WORKING CHRIST Matthew 8:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. On the mountain top. The mountain tops in the Bible stand forth in bold review. They represent Heavenly experiences, fellowship with God...
There came to him a centurion — A captain of a hundred Roman soldiers. Probably he came a little way toward him, and then went back. He thought himself not worthy to come in person, and therefore spok...
(CF. LUKE 7:2-10)— Is there a mistake in the accounts concerning Jesus and the centurion? PROBLEM: Matthew seems to present the centurion as the one who seeks the help of Jesus (Matthew 8:5); but, Luk...
The second miracle our Saviour works in this chapter, is the healing of the centurion's servant. Where Observe, 1. The person that applies to our Saviour for help and healing: he was. Gentile, an hea...