Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 7:1

"After he had ended all his sayings in the ears of the people, he entered into Capernaum." — Luke 7:1 (ASV)

In the audience of the people.—This is better understood as in the hearing, or in the ears, since the older meaning of “audience” has become obsolete.

He entered into Capernaum.—The sequence of events is the same as that in Matthew 8:5-13. As far as it goes, this is an element of evidence against the conclusion that the Sermon on the Mount and the Sermon on the Plain were altogether independent.

However, considering the manifest dislocation of facts in one or both of the Gospels—Matthew, for instance, places the healing of the leper (which Luke records in Luke 5:12-16) between the Sermon on the Mount and the healing of the centurion’s servant—the agreement in this instance can hardly be considered more than accidental.