MATTHEW 27:54 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.”
When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said: truly this was the Son of God! The centurion's confession — truly this was the Son of God — is the climactic human response to the crucifixion. The Roman soldiers who mocked the King of the Jews now confess the Son of God. The centurion's confession is the Gentile conversion that the Olivet Discourse anticipated: the gospel proclaimed to all nations produces confessions from the ends of the earth.
Church Fathers on Matthew 27:54
Great things were done at the moment that Jesus cried with a great voice.
The wording sufficiently shews that the veil was rent just when He gave up the ghost. If he had not added, 'And, lo!' but had merely said, 'And the veil of the temple was rent,: it would have been uncertain whether Matthew and Mark had not inserted it here out of its place as they recollected, and Luke had observed the right order, who having said, 'And the sun was darkened,' adds, 'And the veil of the temple was rent in twain;' [Luke 23:45] or, on the contrary, Luke had…
; Or, The veil of the temple is rent, because from this time the nation was dispersed, and the honour of the veil is taken away with the guardianship of the protecting Angel.
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