Luke 7:1

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 Leper (Matthew 8:1, and Mark 1:40) only intervening-on the way, probably, from the Mount to Capernaum. NOW WHEN HE HAD ENDED ALL HIS SAYINGS IN THE AUDIENCE OF THE PEOPLE, HE ENTERED INTO CAPERNAUM....

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 Christ, and ought to do so when sickness is in our families. The building places for religious worship is a good work, and an instance of love to God and his people. Our Lord Jesus was pleased with the centurion's faith; and he never fails to answer the expectations of that faith which honours his power and love. The cure soon wrought and perfect....

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 disciples_ _to inquire whether he was the Christ_, 18-23. _Christ's character of John_, 24-30. _The obstinate blindness and capriciousness of the Jews_, 31-35. _A Pharisee invites him to his house, where a woman anoints his_ _head with oil, and washes his feet with her tears_, 36-38. _The Pharisee is offended_ 39....

IN THE AUDIENCE OF THE PEOPLE - In the hearing of the people....

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 discourse evidently occupied a position of its own in the public ministry of the Lord. Its great length, its definite announcement of the kind of reign he was inaugurating over the hearts of men, its stern rebuke of the dominant religious teaching of the day, its grave prophetic onlooks,—all marked it out as the great manifesto of the new Master, and as such it seems to have been generally received. HE ENTERED INTO CAPERNAUM. The residence of Jesus, as we have before pointed out, during the greater part of hi

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 said many things after this: IN THE AUDIENCE OF THE PEOPLE; of the common people, the multitude besides the disciples; and that openly, and publicly, and with a loud and clear voice, that all might hear: HE ENTERED INTO CAPERNAUM; Jesus entered, as the Syriac version reads, into his own city, and where he had been before, and wrought miracles....

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. (Luke 7:24) 5. The Unreasonableness of Unbelief. (Luke 7:30 .) 6. The Woman With the Alabaster Box. (Luke 7:36) 7. The Parable of the Two Debtors. (Luke 7:41 .)...

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 well as his servant) from contact with Jesus, and is satisfied with recording the esteem in which the pagan soldier (like Cornelius, Acts 10) was held, and the extension of Jesus-' beneficence and His appreciation of faith beyond Jewry....

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 he heard about Jesus he sent some Jewish elders to him and asked him to come and save his servant's life. They came to Jesus and strenuously urged him to come. "He is," they said, "a man who deserves that you should do this for him, for he loves our nation and has himself built us our synagogue." So Jesus went with them. When he was now quite near the house the centurion sent friends to him. "Sir, he said, "do not trouble yourself. I am not worthy that you should come under my roof; nor do I count myself fit to come to you; but just speak a word and my servant will be cured. For I myself am a man under orders, and I have soldiers under me, and I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes; and to another,...

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 Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for hearing. INTO. Greek. _eis.App-104._ CAPERNAUM. See App-169....