47Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.
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Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.
And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.
The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 44-49)In these verses we have three things:— I. Christ’s dying magnified by the prodigies that attended it: only two are here mentioned, which we had an account of before. 1. The darkening of the sun at noon-day . It was now about the sixth hour , that is, according to our computation, twelve o’clock at noon; and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour . The sun was eclipsed and the…
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