MARK 15:39 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.”
And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died, he said, surely this man was the Son of God — the centurion's confession is the human climax of the crucifixion — and it comes from the most unexpected source: a Roman officer, a Gentile, a soldier of the occupying force. Saw how he died — the loud cry, the unexpected strength, the manner of death — produces the confession. The Son of God title echoes the baptismal declaration (1:11) and the transfiguration voice (9:7). The first human to confess Jesus as Son of God without being corrected or silenced is a Roman centurion at the cross.
Church Fathers on Mark 15:39
After the Evangelist has related the Passion and the death of Christ, he now goes on to mention those things which followed after the death of our Lord.
The veil of the temple is rent, that is, the heaven is opened.
Again, God by the rending of the veil implied that the grace of the Holy Spirit goes away and is rent from the temple, so that the Holy of holies might be seen by all; [ed. note: The sense of the passage by reference to Theophylact appears to be, that as the Jews used to rend their clothes as a sign of grief, so the temple by the rending of its veil might be said to mourn.] also that the temple will mourn amongst the Jews, when they shall deplore their calamities, and rend…
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