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LUKE 7:2 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 7:1Luke 7:3
“And a certain centurion’s servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die.”
There a centurion's servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die — the centurion is a Roman military officer commanding a century of soldiers. His servant (doulos, slave) is valued highly (entimos, honored, precious) — the emotional relationship between the centurion and his slave is the unusual detail that makes the request intelligible. About to die communicates the urgency of the need.

Church Fathers on Luke 7:2

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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