Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible
Luke 7:1
‘After he had ended all his sayings in the ears of the people, he entered into Capernaum.'
Having completed the giving of the new Law Jesus now returned to Capernaum.
‘After he had ended all his sayings in the ears of the people, he entered into Capernaum.'
Having completed the giving of the new Law Jesus now returned to Capernaum.
CHAPTER VII. _Christ heals the servant of a centurion, who is commended_ _for his faith_, 1-10. _Raises a widow's son to life at Nain_, 11-17. _John Baptist hears of his fame, and sends two of his...
IN THE AUDIENCE OF THE PEOPLE - In the hearing of the people....
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Centurion's Servant Healed. (Luke 7:1 .)_ 2. The Widow's Son Raised from the Dead. (Luke 7:11) 3. John's Questions and the Answer. (Luke 7:18) 4. The Testimony Concerning John. ...
THE CENTURION'S SERVANT (Matthew 8:5 *). Lk.'s version is peculiar through the introduction of two sets of intermediaries Jewish elders and friends. Thus he keeps the Gentile centurion himself (as wel...
A SOLDIER'S FAITH (Luke 7:1-10)...
When Jesus had completed all his words in the hearing of the people, he went into Capernaum. The servant of a certain centurion was so ill that he was going to die, and he was very dear to him. When h...
ENDED. completed, or finished. SAYINGS. Greek. p1. of _rhema._ Not the same word as in Luke 6:47. See note on Mark 9:32. IN. into. Greek. _eis._ App-104. AUDIENCE. hearing. Greek. "ears". Put by Fi...
Luke 7:1-10 . Healing of the Centurion's Servant. 1. _in the audience_ i.e. in the _hearing._ he entered into Capernauni See Matthew 8:5-13. This was now His temporary home. The incident occurred as...
HEALING OF THE CENTURION’S SERVANT...
ἘΠΕΙΔΉ, ABC. This seems to be the best reading, for D has καὶ ἐγένετο ὅτε, and K, ἐπειδὴ δέ. 1. ἘΠΕΙΔΉ. Where. This is the best reading. Luke 11:6 is the only place where it occurs (undisputedly) in...
Ver 1. Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum. 2. And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick, and ready to die. 3. And whe...
ΕΠΕΙΔΉ (G1894) после. Обычно имеет причинное значение, но здесь временное (RWP). ΈΠΛΉΡΩΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΛΗΡΌΩ (G4137) выполнять, завершать, заканчивать, выполнять задание (Marshall), ΕΙΣΉΛΘΕ...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 The Sick (Luke 7:1-10) 7 After he had ended all his sayings in the hearing of the people he entered Capernaum. 2Now a centurion had a slave who was dear to him, who was s...
Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum. The time of this scene seems to have been just after the preceding discourse; the healing of the Lepe...
32-36 Compare Mat_5:44-48. 35 We have here the substance of the new covenant which the Lord will make with Israel when He restores them to their land and to His favor (Jer_31:27-34). After those days,...
RAISING OF THE WIDOW'S SON. THE WOMAN WHO WAS A SINNER 1-10. Healing of the centurion's servant. See on Matthew 8:5....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 7 THE *FAITH OF AN ARMY OFFICER 7:1-10 V1 When Jesus had finished saying all these things to the people, he went to Capernaum. V2 In that town, an of...
VII. (1) IN THE AUDIENCE OF THE PEOPLE. — Better, _in the hearing,_ or, _in the ears,_ the older sense of “audience” having become obsolete. HE ENTERED INTO CAPERNAUM. — The sequence of events is the...
CHAPTER 12 THE FAITH OF THE CENTURION. Luke 7:1 OUR Evangelist prefaces the narrative of the healing of the centurion's servant with one of his characteristic time-marks, the shadow upon his dial-pl...
εἰς τὰς ἀκοὰς, into the ears = εἰς τὰ ὦτα in Sept [73] (Genesis 20:8; Genesis 50:4; Exodus 10:2). To show that it is not a Hebraism, Kypke cites from Dion. Hal.: εἰς τὴν ἀπάντων τῶν παρόντων ἀκοὴν. εἰ...
_The Centurion of Capernaum_ (Matthew 8:5-13)....
AN ALIEN'S SURPRISING FAITH Luke 7:1-10 It is interesting to find these wild flowers of natural faith, humility and love growing outside the carefully cultured garden of the Hebrew religion. God has...
Here our Lord passed over the national boundary to bring blessing to the household of a Roman centurion. Of that man the elders said, "He is worthy." The man said, "I am not worthy." Jesus Said, "I ha...
Now (1) when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum. (1) Christ admonishes the Jews that for their obstinacy and rebellion he will go to the Gentiles, b...
It was not immediately after he had spoken the preceding words that Christ entered Capharnaum, for in the interim he healed the man afflicted with the leprosy, according as St. Matthew related it in i...
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...
2. _The Centurion's Servant: Luke 7:1-10_. This was the most striking instance of faith that Jesus had met with up to this time; and what was more astonishing, He was indebted for this surprise to a G...
_a.The First Deputation._ The Alex. reading ἐπείδη, _since assuredly_, has no meaning. There is something solemn in these expressions: ἐπλήσωσε, _had fulfilled_, and εἰς τὰς ἀκοάς, _in the ears of th...
(1) Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum. (2) And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die. (3) And wh...
CONTENTS We have here the Cure of the Centurion's Servant: the raising of the Widow's Son; Christ's Answer to the Messengers of John the Baptist; and Mary anointing Christ's Feet....
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
Hence, after this, we find the Spirit acting in the heart of a Gentile (chapter 7). That heart manifested more faith than any among the children of Israel. Humble in heart, and loving the people of Go...
NOW WHEN HE HAD ENDED ALL HIS SAYINGS,.... That is, when Jesus, as the Persic version expresses it, had finished all the above sayings, doctrines, and instructions; not all that he had to say, for he...
Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum. Ver. 1. See Matthew 8:5 ....
_When he had ended all his sayings_ Namely, those contained in the preceding chapter; _in the audience of the people_ For though his discourse was immediately addressed to his disciples, he delivered...
AUDIENCE; hearing....
THE CENTURION OF CAPERNAUM. The prayer of the centurion:...
NOW WHEN HE HAD ENDED ALL HIS SAYINGS IN THE AUDIENCE OF THE PEOPLE, HE ENTERED INTO CAPERNAUM....
A CENTURION'S SERVANT HEALED (vs.1-10) The Lord then came to Capernaum and there was appealed to by a Gentile, a Roman centurion, by means of the mediatorship of Jewish elders. In contrast to this a...
1-10 Servants should study to endear themselves to their masters. Masters ought to take particular care of their servants when they are sick. We may still, by faithful and fervent prayer, apply to Ch...
LUKE CHAPTER 7 LUKE 7:1 Christ admires the centurion's singular faith, and healeth his absent servant. LUKE 7:11 He raiseth to life the widow's son at Nain, LUKE 7:18 and sendeth back the messengers o...
Tertullian On Idolatry albeit, likewise, a centurion had believed;[159] Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV should confess that He had "found so great a faith not even in Israel."[655]...
Luke 7:1 Now G1161 when G1893 concluded G4137 (G5656) all G3956 His G846 sayings G4487 in G1519 hearing...
CHRONOLOGY. The healing of the centurion's servant at Capernaum followed the discourse recorded in the last chapter, no event of which we have any account intervening. (See on Matthew 8:1 ff.) The rai...
Luke 7:1-10. THE HEALING OP THE CENTURION'S SERVANT. See on Matthew 8:5-13. Luke's account is fuller and more accurate as regards the messengers of the centurion, but Matthew gives at length the langu...
AFTER (επειδη, επε ανδ δη). This conjunction was written επε δη in Homer and is simple επε with the intensive δη added and even επε δη περ once in N.T. (Luke 1:1). This is the only instance of the t...
CONTENTS: Centurion's servant healed. Widow's son raised. Questions from John the Baptist in prison and Jesus' testimony. Jesus annointed in the Pharisee's house. Parable of the creditor and two debto...
Luke 7:2. _A certain centurion's servant._ As soon as this officer heard of Christ, he believed in him, having been assured of the miracles by competent witnesses. Being a gentile, he sent the rulers...
A ROMAN OFFICER THERE HAD A SERVANT. For notes on the healing of this servant, see Matthew 8:5_ to_ Matthew 13:11. SOON AFTERWARD JESUS WENT TO A TOWN NAMED NAIN. Only Luke tells of this "raising from...
_And a certain centurion’s servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die_ THE CENTURION AND HIS SERVANT A Roman soldier, a stern, unbending man, accustomed to be obeyed absolutely; accus...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 7:1 Luke helps his readers answer the question “Who is this...?” (v. Luke 7:49) by recounting two healing miracles (vv. Luke
CHAPTER 7 VER.1. _Now when he had ended_ (or fulfilled) _all his sayings_....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 7:1. IN THE AUDIENCE.—Lit. “in the ears of the people” (R.V.). Luke 7:2. SERVANT.—_I.e._ slave. WHO WAS DEAR UNTO HIM.—Or, “who was in much esteem with him.” This is peculiar to...
EXPOSITION LUKE 7:1 The _servant _(_or slave_)_ of the centurion of Capernaum is healed._ LUKE 7:1 NOW WHEN HE HAD ENDED ALL HIS SAYINGS. This clearly refers to the sermon on the mount. That great...
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Luke's gospel, chapter 7. At this point in Luke's gospel he is going to give us series of events, miracles that transpired in the life of Jesus. When he ended these say...
Matthew 7:28; Matthew 7:29; Matthew 8:5...
Sayings [ρ η μ α τ α]. See on ch. Luke 1:37. In the ears [ε ι ς τ α ς α κ ο α ς]. Lit., into the ears. See on ears, Luke 4:37....
Matthew 8:5....
In our Saviour's miraculous cure of the centurion's servant, we have several particulars very observable: 1. The person applying himself to our blessed Saviour for help and healing: he was. Gentile,...