54Now 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.
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And sitting down they watched him there;
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.
He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man. …
And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 50-56)We have here, at length, an account of the death of Christ, and several remarkable passages that attended it. I. The manner how he breathed his last (Matt. 27:50); between the third and the sixth hour, that is, between nine and twelve o’clock, as we reckon, he was nailed to the cross, and soon after the ninth hour, that is, between three and four o’clock in the afternoon, he died. That was the tim…
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