![]() What's he talking about? What's he marveling about?" Well, it could be that here's a Roman, an outsider who shouldn't have known who Christ is and his authority and his relationship with his heavenly father and Jesus marvels at that, "Here's an outsider." Or maybe he's just marveling the fact that Jesus or the Centurion didn't even feel compelled to see Jesus face to face, that he would send his own voice to do that. Jesus tells a crowd that is standing there, "I've never seen this kind of faith, not even in Israel. At least it's not recorded that they did that. ![]() Jesus then turns to the crowd, having never talked to the Centurion.Īs many times as I read that in Luke, I never knew that they never saw each other face to face. ![]() The friends go back and when they get back home, I mean, the servant has been healed. ![]() I know that you can just speak a word and this servant would be healed." That's exactly what happens. I tell them to go and they go, I tell them to come and they come. He says, "For I am like you, I am a man under authority, yet I tell people what to do. All you have to do is speak the word." But then he adds these couple of verses. He sends his friends now, to tell Jesus, "I'm unworthy of you to come to my home. They go back to the Centurion.Īs Jesus is getting closer to the Centurion's home, the Centurion doesn't come out to see Jesus. He has built them synagogues and those kinds of things. The Centurion has been favorable for them. The elders go to Jesus, they plead on behalf of the Centurion. He sends his Jewish friends, the elders to Jesus, asking Jesus to heal this guy. The Bible says, it's kind of interesting. But in this particular instance, there's a Roman Centurion who has a servant, who is about to die. He commends a woman for giving her last bit of money. I would recommend someone to do, is to go through the Gospels and call out those times that Jesus really commends people. In fact, that's a great Bible study to do. Any time that the Bible says Jesus marveled or Jesus commended someone. I wish I really knew the ultimate answer to that. The following text is a transcript of the video below: But Gentiles will be welcomed to recline at his table, as it were, “in the Kingdom of the heavens.Why was Jesus impressed by the Roman Centurion? Hence, natural Jews who do not accept the opportunity offered first to them to be part of the Kingdom with Christ will be rejected. There is where their weeping and the gnashing of their teeth will be.”- Matthew 8:11, 12. Once Jesus has performed that healing, he uses the occasion to confirm that non-Jews of faith will be favored with blessings, saying: “Many from east and west will come and recline at the table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of the heavens.” What about faithless Jews? Jesus says that they “will be thrown into the darkness outside. ![]() Jesus is amazed to hear this and comments: “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found so great a faith.” ( Luke 7:9) On returning to the centurion’s house, his friends discover that the slave who was so ill is now in good health. ( Acts 10:28) Perhaps with this in mind, the officer has his friends urge Jesus: “Say the word, and let my servant be healed.”- Luke 7:7. The centurion no doubt is aware that Jews avoid fellowshipping with non-Jews. That is why I did not consider myself worthy to come to you.” ( Luke 7:6, 7) What a humble expression from someone used to giving orders! And it shows how different this man is from Romans who treat slaves harshly.- Matthew 8:9. As they near it, the officer sends out friends to say: “Sir, do not bother, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. Soon, Jesus leaves with the elders for the army officer’s house. ![]()
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