Luke 7:1

VII.

(1) In the audience of the people. — Better, in the hearing, or, in the ears, the older sense of “audience” having become obsolete.

He entered into Capernaum. — The sequence of events is the same as that in Matthew 8:5; and, as far as it goes, this is an element of evidence against the conclusion that the Sermon on the Mountain and that on the Plain were altogether independent. Looking, however, at the manifest dislocation of facts in one or both of the Gospels, St. Matthew placing between the Sermon on the Mount and the healing of the centurion’s servant, the healing of the leper, which St. Luke gives in Luke 5:12, the agreement in this instance can hardly be looked at as more than accidental.