Luke 7:8
For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
For I also am a man set under authority,.... Of the Roman senate; "or belonging to the emperor", as the Arabic version renders it; and under the command of a tribune, as a centurion was: so that this…
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 Mat 8:5, etc. There it was said that the centurion came to Christ; here it…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
For I also This assigns the reason why he made the request. He was but a subordinate himself, "under authority" of his Chiliarch and other officers, and yet he had soldiers under him as well as a…
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