Luke 7:10 — Community Reflections

LUKE 7:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick.”

Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well — the immediate, distance healing is confirmed by the return of the messengers: the servant is well (hygiaonta, in good health). The miracle occurred at the word of Jesus, at a distance, at the moment of the faith-declaration — without physical contact, without presence, through the mediation of trust in the word's authority.

Church Fathers on Luke 7:10

When He had strengthened His disciples by more perfect teaching, He goes to Capernaum to work miracles there; as it is said, When he had ended all his sayings, he entered into Capernaum.
TITUS BOST ·

Here we must understand that He did not enter before He had ended these sayings, but it is not mentioned what space of time intervened between the termination of His discourse, and His entering into Capernaum. For in that interval the leper was cleansed whom Matthew introduced in his proper place.
Augustine · 4th century

But having finished His teaching, He rightly instructs them to follow the example of His precepts. For straightway the servant of a Gentile centurion is presented to the Lord to be healed. Now the Evangelist, when he said that the servant was about to die, did not err, because he would have died had he not been healed by Christ.
Ambrose · 4th century

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