Matthew 8:5-13. THE HEALING OF THE CENTURION'S SERVANT. Compare the fuller account in Luke 7:1-10. This miracle must not be confounded with the healing of the nobleman's son (John 4:47-53) in the same city. The two cases have striking points of difference.

And when he had entered into Capernaum. This does not necessarily determine the time. Matthew places this miracle next to the healing of the leper, probably with the purpose of showing how our Lord healed those judged unclean by the Mosaic law.

There came unto him a centurion. A captain of one hundred soldiers, probably in the service of Herod Antipas, possibly in the regular Roman army. A heathen by birth, perhaps a proselyte of the gate. This class, however, is generally specified by some such word as ‘devout.' The fuller account of Luke tells us that he had built a synagogue, and that he did not himself go to Jesus, but sent first ‘the elders of the Jews, and then ‘friends.'

Beseeching him, through the elders of the Jews (Luke 7:4).

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