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I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven,
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A Kingdom for All Nations
Commentators emphasize that Jesus' statement was revolutionary for his audience. He declared that God's kingdom is not exclusive to ethnic Israel. People from all over the world ('east and west') would be welcomed based on faith, like the Roman centurion. This radically expanded the understanding of who could be part of God's family, turning common expectations upside down.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 …
Sit down (ανακλιθησοντα). Recline at table on couches as Jews and Romans did. Hence Leonardo da Vinci's famous picture of the Last…
19th Century
Anglican
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…
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Baptist
And shall sit down
Or recline in ease and rest.
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 (…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
13th Century
Catholic
And when he had entered into Capernaum. Here, Christ’s power is shown from His absence. Firstly, the centurion’s piety wi…
