THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW - Chapter 8 - Verse 5

Verse 5. Capernaum. See Barnes "Mt 4:13".

There came unto him a centurion. A centurion was a commander of a hundred men, in the Roman armies. Judea was a Roman province, and garrisons were kept there to preserve the people in subjection. This man was probably by birth a pagan. See Mt 8:10.

{v} "a centurion" Lu 7:2