Matthew 8:5

§ 37. SECOND MIRACLE HEALING THE CENTURION’S SERVANT, Matthew 8:5-13 .

5. Entered into Capernaum From the Sermon on the Mount. Centurion A Roman captain over a hundred men. As Lake Gennesaret was a water of no little traffic between northern Syria and Palestine, so Capernaum was a port of revenue, and the abode of a Roman garrison to keep the turbulent Galilean peasantry in order. The centurion on the present occasion was evidently one whose residence in Palestine had detached him from the paganism of his Roman education. He had traced in Judaism evidences of truth which touched his heart. He almost seems a prototype of Cornelius in the Acts.