Sit down (ανακλιθησοντα). Recline at table on couches as Jews and Romans did. Hence Leonardo da Vinci's famous picture of the Last…

Many shall come from the east, etc. Jesus takes occasion, from the faith of a Roman centurion, to state that this conversion would not be …

Luke does not include the words that follow, and this omission is significant. Either he did not know of them, in which case we must infer the comp…

When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. An…

St. John Chrysostom: Just as what the leper had affirmed concerning Christ's power, If you will, you can cleanse me, …

The picture in this follow-up saying of Jesus is that of the “messianic banquet,” derived from such OT passages as Isa 25:6–9. Jesus here insists (…

Many will come from the east and west. In the person of the servant, Christ gave to the Gentiles a taste and a kind of first-fruits of his…

And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and
west
On occasion of the fa…

This centurion was a Gentile, a Roman soldier. Though he was a soldier, yet he was a godly man. No one's calling or place will be an excuse for unb…

And when he had entered into Capernaum. Here, Christ’s power is shown from His absence. Firstly, the centurion’s piety wi…