Luke 7:1-23

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 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 8:5-13; 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... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 7:2

(2) A certain centurion’s servant.—See Notes on Matthew 8:5-13.Was dear unto him.—Literally, was precious, the dearness of value, but not necessarily of affection. St. Luke is here, contrary to what we might have expected, less precise than St. Matthew, who states that the slave was “sick of the palsy.” Had the physician been unable to satisfy himself from what he heard as to the nature of the disease? The details that follow show that he had made inquiries, and was able to supply some details... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 7:3

(3) He sent unto him the elders of the Jews.—The noun has no article. Better, He sent unto Him elders; not as the English suggests, the whole body of elders belonging to the synagogue or town. This is peculiar to St. Luke, and is obviously important as bearing on the position and character of the centurion. He was, like Cornelius, at least half a proselyte. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 7:4

(4) They besought him instantly.—Better, earnestly, or urgently, the adverb “instantly” having practically lost the meaning which our translators attached to it. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 7:5

(5) He hath built us a synagogue.—Literally, the synagogue, a well-known and conspicuous building, probably the only one in Capernaum, and so identical with that of which the ruins have been lately discovered by the Palestine Exploration Society. (See Note on Matthew 4:13.) read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 7:6

(6) Then Jesus went with them.—Literally, And Jesus was going with them.The centurion sent friends to him.—The precision of St. Luke’s account leads us to receive it as a more accurate record of what St. Matthew reports in outline. It is, we may add, more true to nature. The centurion was not likely to leave the slave who was so precious to him when he seemed as in the very agonies of death.Trouble not thyself.—The word is the same as in Mark 5:35, where see Note. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 7:7

(7) Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy.—The humility of the centurion appears in a yet stronger light than in St. Matthew’s report. Far from expecting the Prophet to come under his roof, he had not dared even to approach Him. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 7:9

(9) I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.—It is, perhaps, characteristic of both the Evangelists that St. Luke omits the warning words which St. Matthew records as to the “many that shall come from the east and the west,” and the exclusion of the children of the kingdom. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 7:10

(10) Found the servant whole.—Note St. Luke’s characteristic use, as in Luke 5:31, of a technical term for “healthy” or “convalescent.” read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Luke 7:11

(11) He went into a city called Nain.—The narrative that follows is peculiar to St. Luke. The name of the city has survived, with hardly any alteration, in the modern Nein. It lies on the north-western edge of the “Little Hermon” (the Jebel-ed-Dâhy) as the ground falls into the plain of Esdraelon. It is approached by a steep ascent, and on either side of the road the rock is full of sepulchral caves. It was on the way to one of these that the funeral procession was met by our Lord. We may... read more

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