For I also am a man under authority (κα γαρ εγω ανθρωπος υπο εξουσιαν). "Also" is in the text, though the κα here may mean "even,"…

I am a man, etc. He had full confidence in the ability of Jesus to heal his servant and requested him simply to give the command. This req…

For I am a man under authority — He gives, not without a certain naïveté, the process of reasoning that led him to this convictio…

The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof: but speak the word only and my servant shall be heal…

Pseudo-Chrysostom: After teaching His disciples on the mount and healing the leper at the foot of the mount, the Lord c…

Both here and in the story of the Canaanite woman (15:21–28), faith triumphs over the obstacle Jesus erects. The centurion’s reply again opens with…

For I am a man subject to the power of another. This comparison does not imply equality between the two cases, but is taken from the less …

For I am a man under authority
Of Caesar the Roman emperor, and of superior officers under him, as a tribune

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…