Howard Marshall, there were no Roman forces in Galilee prior to AD 44 therefore, the soldier was probably a member of Herod Agrippa's troops, which modeled Roman organization. His statements are also used as part of the Communion rite in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.Īccording to I. The statements made by the centurion are used in the Prayer of Humble Access contained in many Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, and other Christian Eucharist liturgies. Augustine and Bede are of the opinion that the centurion never came to Jesus but only came in the sense of sending his friends as emissaries. He did this "either for the sake of doing Him honour, or because of the urgency of the disease, and the imminent peril of death." St. John Chrysostom, Theophylact of Ohrid, and Euthymius, all hold that these events in Luke happened first and then last of all the centurion came to Christ. Since Luke does not say that the centurion himself came to Christ, but only sent to Him, first Jews, and then his friends. The basic problem is the difference between the two accounts. Tenney in his commentary on John and Orville Daniel in his Gospel harmony also consider them two different incidents. France presents linguistic arguments against the equivalence of pais and son and considers these two separate miracles.
Some modern commentators treat them as the same event. The Gospel of John does narrate the account of Jesus healing the son of a royal official at Capernaum at a distance in John 4:46–54. One possibility is that only the dialogue was in Q, and both Matthew and Luke added the background details from a shared oral history. It would also be the only miracle story that originated in Q. If true then this passage would still be an anomaly as Q is believed to have been a collection of sayings of Jesus (a list of sermons and quotations) with no other contextual material but the story of the centurion does include background detail. One theory is that material not in Mark but found in both Matthew and Luke may have come from a lost source known as " Q". The story of the centurion is not mentioned in the Gospel of Mark, the earliest of the four gospels. I say to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it." When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following him, he said, "I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel." Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes and that one, 'Come,' and he comes. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. But say the word, and my servant will be healed. That is why I did not even consider myself worthy to come to you.
He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to say to him: "Lord, don't trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, "This man deserves to have you do this, because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue." So Jesus went with them. The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. There a centurion's servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people who were listening, he entered Capernaum.
But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would." And his servant was healed at that very hour. I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. I say to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it." When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, "Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. "Lord," he said, "my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly." Jesus said to him, "Shall I come and heal him?" The centurion replied, "Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help. The story of the centurion appears both in the Gospel of Matthew and that of Luke:
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