John Gill's Exposition on Matthew 8:5

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, etc.] Was returned from his journey through Galilee, to the place where he before dwelt, and is called his own city, (<400901>Matthew 9:1) there came unto him a centurion, a Roman officer, ham rç, “a commander of an hundred men”, as the Hebrew Gospel by Munster reads it: though the number of men under a “centurion” was more, according to some accounts. “A band (it is said f493) made two centuries, each of which consisted of an hundred and twenty eight soldiers; for a doubled century made a band, whose governor was called an ordinary “centurion”.” Such an one was Cornelius, a centurion of a band, (<441001>Acts 10:1). The other person that was healed was a Jew. The next instance of Christ’s power and goodness is the servant of a Gentile; he came to do good both to Jews and Gentiles; beseeching him, not in person, but by his messengers; (see <420703>Luke 7:3) and the Jews f494 say, wtwmk µda lç wjwlçç, “that a man’s messenger is as himself”.

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