LUKE 23:47 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.”
The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and said, surely this was a righteous man — the centurion's response is Luke's distinctive: praised God (edoxazen ton theon) rather than Mark's surely this was the Son of God. Surely this was a righteous man (dikaios): the Roman soldier's legal verdict — innocent, righteous. The military witness becomes the fourth human being to declare Jesus' innocence in this chapter (Pilate three times, Herod, Barabbas exchange, criminal on cross, centurion).
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