Luke 7:2

And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die. AND A CERTAIN CENTURION'S SERVANT, WHO WAS DEAR UNTO HIM, WAS SICK, AND READY TO DIE. These centurions were Roman officers, so called from being captains over 100 soldiers. Though a pagan by birth and early training, he had become acquainted with the Jewish religion probably either while quartered at Capernaum or in some other Galilee town; although there were so many proselytes to the Jewish religion in all the principal Greek and Roman cities that he might have embraced the true Faith even before his arrival in the Holy Land. The same may be said of Cornelius (). His character appears here in the most beautiful light. The value which he set upon this dying servant and his anxiety for his recovery-as if he had been his own son-is the first feature in it; because, as Dr....

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....

Verse Luke 7:2. _A CERTAIN CENTURION'S SERVANT_] See this miracle explained on Matthew 8:5....

WHO WAS DEAR UNTO HIM - That is, he was valuable, trusty, and honored....

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

AND A CERTAIN CENTURION'S SERVANT,.... The same that Matthew makes mention of, Matthew 8:5, Matthew 8:5. Matthew 8:6. WHO WAS DEAR UNTO HIM; to the centurion, being an honest, upright, faithful, and obliging servant; as Tabi was to Rabban Gamaliel, of whom his master said l, "Tabi my servant, is not as other servants, כשר היה, "he is upright".'' WAS SICK: of a palsy; see Matthew 8:6, AND READY TO DIE; in all appearance his case was desperate, and there was no help for him by any human means, which makes the following cure, the more remarkable....

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,...

A CERTAIN CENTURION: viz. the same that the Lord had blessed before (Matthew 8:5); i.e. before the calling of the twelve, Matthew 10:1, &c. This second healing of the centurion's _bondman_ took place _after_ the calling of the twelve (Luke 6:13). Note the different words and incidents. servant. bondman. Greek. _doulos,_ not _"pais"_ as in Matthew 8:6 (App-108.) and in Luke 7:7 here, for the " _pais"_ might be. _"doulos",_ while the _"doulos"_ need not be _a. pais". "Pais"_ relates to origin, " _doulos"_ to condition, when use