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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Matthew 8:5-13

We have here an account of Christ's curing the centurion's servant of a palsy. This was done at Capernaum, where Christ now dwelt, Matt. 4:13. Christ went about doing good, and came home to do good too; every place he came to was the better for him. The persons Christ had now to do with were, 1. A centurion; he was a supplicant, a Gentile, a Roman, an officer of the army; probably commander-in-chief of that part of the Roman army which was quartered at Capernaum, and kept garrison there. (1.)... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 8:1-34

Of all the gospel writers Matthew is the most orderly. He never sets out his material haphazardly. If in Matthew one thing follows another in a certain sequence, there is always a reason for that sequence; and it is so here. In Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 Matthew has given us the Sermon on the Mount. That is to say, in these chapters he has given us his account of the words of Jesus; and now in Matthew 8:1-34 he gives us an account of the deeds of Jesus. Matthew... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 8:5

And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum ,.... Was returned from his journey through Galilee, to the place where he before dwelt, and is called his own city, Matthew 9:1 there came unto him a centurion , a Roman officer, שר מאה , "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 F7 Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 6. c. 13. ) made two centuries,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 8:6

And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home ,.... It would be a difficulty whether it was a son or a servant he was so concerned for; since παις , the word here used, more commonly signifies a "son" or "child"; but that Luke, supposing it to be the same case he relates, expressly calls him δουλος , "a servant", Luke 7:2 . The concern of the "centurion" for him, shows him to have been a good servant, faithful and obedient to his master; since he was so much affected with his case, and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 8:5

Capernaum - See Matthew 4:13 . A centurion - Εκατονταρχος . A Roman military officer who had the command of one hundred men. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 8:6

Lord - Rather, Sir, for so the word κυριε should always be translated when a Roman is the speaker. Lieth at home - Βεβληται , lieth all along; intimating that the disease had reduced him to a state of the utmost impotence, through the grievous torments with which it was accompanied. Sick of the palsy - Or paralytic. See Matthew 4:24 . This centurion did not act as many masters do when their servants are afflicted, have them immediately removed to an infirmary, often to a... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 8:5

Verse 5 Matthew 8:5.And when Jesus had entered Those who think that Matthew and Luke give different narratives, are led into a mistake by a mere trifle. The only difference in the words is, that Matthew says that the centurion came to him, while Luke says that he sent some of the Jews to plead in his name. But there is no impropriety in Matthew saying, that the centurion did what was done in his name and at his request. There is such a perfect agreement between the two Evangelists in all the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 8:1-13

The leper and the centurion. The miracles of our Lord are an integral and necessary part of God's revelation of himself to men. Christ came not so much to reveal God's power as to reveal God's disposition to use that power for us; not so much to show God's holiness as to show his desire and purpose to make us also holy. Miracles, therefore, lay as naturally and inevitably in the way of Christ's work as his teaching with authority did. I. THE HEALING OF THE LEPER is the first... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 8:1-17

1. Christ ' s miracles of healing , and the secret of his ability to perform them. Observe: (a) One of the chosen people, who had lost all social and religious privileges; (b) a Gentile, an outsider by birth; (c) the near relation of a personal follower; (d) multitudes. (a) The request by the sufferer; (b) the request by another; (c) apparently no request, yet the personal follower has Christ with him; (d) the sufferers are brought to him. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 8:1-34

MESSIAH 'S WORK AS COMPLEMENTARY TO HIS TEACHING . We return in this section to matter which resembles that of Mark and Luke, and undoubtedly belongs to the Framework ( vide Introduction). St. Matthew has given a lengthy summary of the teaching of the Christ, and he now supplements it by a summary of his daily work. He is not concerned with the chronological connexion of the incidents here narrated, for this is evidently to him a matter of but secondary importance. He... read more

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