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For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.
Every person without Christ is sin-sick to the point of death (7:2).
The centurion is presented as worthy (7:4) but says himself that he is unworthy (7:6).He is humble before Jesus.He recognizes Jesus’ authority. (confident)He is desperate for Jesus to heal his servant.Jesus marveled at this centurion because of his great faith.
Great faith is humble faith.The centurion is presented as worthy (7:4) but says himself that he is unworthy (7:6).Great faith is confident faith.He recognizes Jesus’ authority. (confident)“Say the word...”Great faith is desperate faith.The centurion is desperate for Jesus to heal his servant.Not enough desperation in American Christianity.
Not enough desperation in my Christianity. Not enough desperation in salvation.Not enough desperation for sanctification.
No contradiction between and . Matthew says that the centurion and Jesus communicated directly, while Luke says the communication was through the centurion’s intermediaries. The communication was through the centurion’s intermediaries but to speak to one who communicated on behalf of the centurion was to speak to him directly as Matthew records.
Centurion - originally a Roman officer in charge of 100 men, but at this time the number varied; nevertheless, he was a man in charge of other men
Elders of the Jews - local Jewish officials; villages in the region of Galilee had their own elders who presided as local judges; here they spoke for the centurion who had helped them build their synagogue (the same one mentioned in 4:33)
The centurion, a Gentile, is commended by Jesus for his great faith.Anyone can have faith in Jesus.Anyone can have great faith in Jesus.It is not reserved for one class or one ethnicity.It is available to all.
The servant was made well. The centurion’s great faith was well-placed in Jesus.
Luke: An Introduction and Commentary J. Healing the Centurion’s Slave (7:1–10)Barclay cites the historian Polybius for the qualifications looked for in centurions: they must not be so much ‘seekers after danger as
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
A centurion was a Roman soldier in charge of approximately 100 other Roman soldiers, they were men who could command, who were steady on the battle field, and reliable as a rule. They were not adrenaline junkies eager to rush into a fight, but if push came to shove, they were formidable. They would hold their ground or die trying.
reliable; they ought not to be over anxious to rush into the fight; but when hard pressed they must be ready to hold their ground and die at their posts’
The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;
Luke: An Introduction and Commentary J. Healing the Centurion’s Slave (7:1–10)each of the centurions of whom the New Testament gives us knowledge is a man of character (cf. 23:47; ; ; , ; ; , ).
You remember that it was a centurion at the cross of Christ that praised God, and said, “Certainly this man was innocent!” ().
Now when the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God, saying, “Certainly this man was innocent!”
It was Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who sent for Peter, listened to him preach, and received the Holy Spirit as he trusted Jesus for salvation ().
It was a centurion who saved Paul, a Roman citizen, from being flogged by the Romans in .
And they said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear what you have to say.”
In it was another centurion who was instrumental in saving Paul’s life from a Jewish plot to kill him.
And in , it was yet another centurion, one named Julius, who saved Paul’s life yet again when the ship Paul was on as a prisoner struck a reef and the others soldiers thought the most expedient way to save themselves was to kill the prisoners first.
says, “But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from carrying out their plan.”
In Scripture, it seems the centurions were just as concerned to save lives as take them.
James 3:13-
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
Luke: An Introduction and Commentary J. Healing the Centurion’s Slave (7:1–10)Matthew tells us that his slave was paralysed.
2 Timothy
and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Luke: An Introduction and Commentary J. Healing the Centurion’s Slave (7:1–10)The elders argue that he is worthy to have Jesus help him. They specify two things: the centurion had goodwill for the conquered people, he loves our nation, and he had given expression to that goodwill by aiding local worship, he built for us our synagogue.
Luke: An Introduction and Commentary J. Healing the Centurion’s Slave (7:1–10)What a man does through agents he may be said to do himself. So Matthew simply gives the gist of the centurion’s communication to Jesus, whereas Luke in greater detail gives the actual sequence of events.
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Luke: An Introduction and Commentary J. Healing the Centurion’s Slave (7:1–10)All that was necessary was that he should say the word (lit. ‘speak with a word’; he is regarding the word as the instrument whereby Jesus’ purpose would be effected). The power was in the word Jesus spoke. Nothing more was needed
Luke: An Introduction and Commentary J. Healing the Centurion’s Slave (7:1–10)He does not say, ‘I am a man with authority’ as might have been expected, but I am a man set under authority. The humility of the man comes out in his reference to his place in a graded hierarchy, when he might well have spoken only of his superiority to those beneath him
Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
Luke: An Introduction and Commentary J. Healing the Centurion’s Slave (7:1–10)Jesus marvelled at him. Twice only is Jesus recorded as marvelling at people, here on account of faith and in Nazareth because of unbelief ().
and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
Luke: An Introduction and Commentary J. Healing the Centurion’s Slave (7:1–10)10. Luke does not say that Jesus spoke any word of healing (Matthew tells us that Jesus said, ‘Go; be it done for you as you have believed’, ; but even this is scarcely a ‘word of healing’). He simply says that when the centurion’s messengers got back to the house they found the slave well. Matthew says that the healing took place while the men were with Jesus, but Luke leaves us to infer this; he puts no stress on it. His emphasis is on the centurion’s faith. And he leaves us with the question, Did Jesus go beyond even that great faith and heal without so much as a word?
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Luke: Crossway Classic Commentaries The Centurion’s Servant Healed at Capernaum (7:1–10)A greater miracle of healing than this is nowhere recorded in the Gospels. Without even seeing the sufferer, without touch of hand or look of eye, our Lord restores health to a dying man by a single word. He speaks, and the sick man is cured. He commands, and the disease departs.
Luke: Crossway Classic Commentaries The Centurion’s Servant Healed at Capernaum (7:1–10)To have great gifts and do great works for God is not given to all believers. But all believers ought to strive to be clothed with humility.
Luke: Crossway Classic Commentaries The Centurion’s Servant Healed at Capernaum (7:1–10)7. “Say the word.” The Portuguese commentator Barradius has some striking remarks on these words spoken by the centurion. He says, “This is a peculiar attribute of God’s, to be able to do all things by a word and a command. ‘He spoke and they were made.… He commanded and they were created’ (). Read the book of Genesis. You will see the world created by the Word of God: ‘God said, Let there be light, and there was light.’ ‘God said, Let there be a firmament,’ and a firmament was made.” He then shows from a quotation from Augustine how all the created beings in existence, whether kings or angels or seraphim, cannot create so much as an ant. But when God says, “Let the world be made,” at once it is made through a word. And he concludes, “Well therefore does the centurion say, ‘Say in a word only, and my servant shall be healed.’ ”
Luke: Crossway Classic Commentaries The Centurion’s Servant Healed at Capernaum (7:1–10)Let it teach us to place our admiration where Christ placed his. Let us be more affected with the least measure of grace in a good man than with all the gaieties and glories of a great man.” Our Lord did not wonder at the gorgeous and beautiful buildings of the Jewish temple. But he did marvel at faith
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