2And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.
So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. …
And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife. …
For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.
And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)Some difference there is between this story of the cure of the centurion’s servant as it is related here and as we had it in Matt. 8:5 There it was said that the centurion came to Christ; here it is said that he sent to him first some of the elders of the Jews (Luke 7:3), and afterwards some other friends , Luke 7:6. But it is a rule that we are said to do that which we do by another—Quod facimus…
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