Stood afar off (ιστηκεισαν απο μακροθεν). Same verb as in verse 35. Melancholy picture of the inner circle of the acquaintances of…

All his acquaintance.—This is the only passage in which the word is used. Saint Luke apparently employs it as intermediat…

And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.

Let these thing…

St. Augustine of Hippo: When He immediately gave up the ghost after uttering that cry, those who were present greatly marveled. …

After Jesus’ death, Luke calls on the centurion as a witness to Jesus’ uniqueness. His words in his gospel emphasize, as in the trial scene, the in…

And all his acquaintance
That were related to him in a natural, or in a spiritual sense, or both, as his own mother,…

We have here the death of Christ magnified by the wonders that attended it, and his death explained by the words with which he breathed out his sou…