![]() This humility is notable in a man of authority. By saying that he is not worthy for Jesus to enter under his roof, the centurion shows that it is Jesus who has the power to save. ![]() This example shows that the pattern of having someone under your roof is that you seek to protect and save them. …only unto these men do nothing for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof… (Genesis 19:8) The only other time this phrase “under my roof” is when Lot is trying to protect the angels who visit him in Sodom: The centurion shows his faith by saying that he is not worthy for Jesus to enter under his roof because he has no authority over Jesus. This sense of what it means to be “under” is clearly informing the centurion’s wish that Jesus should not “enter under my roof” (v6) which he considers himself unworthy of. The centurion describes his position in the hierarchy of power in the Roman army: “For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers” (v8). To understand this it is important to look more closely at the context of the teaching in this passage and understand why it is written like this. However there is an obvious question which arises as a result of this explanation – why are the two accounts different? Why would God create “confusion” by recording the two events in such different ways? These examples demonstrate that the witnesses of Matthew and Luke are describing the same events in different ways the elders of the Jews and the centurion’s friends are acting as representatives of the centurion. In verse 18 when the men speak to Abraham, the text says “And the LORD said unto Abraham” Yahweh speaks through these three men, but he describes it as if he is speaking himself. ![]() When Yahweh appears to Abraham in Genesis 18, it is in the representatives of “three men”. This idea is familiar when we consider how God reveals himself to man, through his angels. Reading verse 1 in isolation would give the impression that Jesus was personally baptising his disciples reference to verse 2 clarifies that it was his disciples who were doing the physical action of baptism, on the behalf of Jesus. When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) (John 4:1-2) Is there a contradiction here? Did Jesus meet the centurion in person, or not? Luke witnesses that he did not, does Matthew’s witness imply that he did? AgencyĬonsider this description of the work of Jesus: ![]() Jesus “saith unto him, I will come” and “the centurion answered”.Īccording to Luke 7, when the centurion “heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him”, and when Jesus was not far from his house, “the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him…”. According to Matthew 8 “there came unto him (Jesus) a centurion, beseeching him”. There are two accounts of Jesus’ interactions with a centurion whose servant was sick. ![]()
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