Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Matthew 8:5 When Jesus was entered into Capernaum. See PNT "Mt 4:13". His return to the place he made his home after the Sermon on the Mount and healing the leper. Compare Luke 7:1-10. There came unto him a centurion. A Roman military officer, corresponding to our captain. All Palestine was under Roman military government at this time, with headquarters at Caesarea, and soldiers in every leading town. This centurion probably commanded the company stationed at Capernaum. He was, of course, a Gentile. We learn from Luke 7:3, he came to Jesus, not in person, but by Jewish elders, whom he supposed would have more influence with the Lord. These elders interceded more readily because he had built them a synagogue (Luke 7:5), either to secure favor, or because he was, like Cornelius, a devout man. In the ruins of Tel Hum, supposed to be Capernaum, are yet found the foundations of a synagogue, one known by certain characteristics to have been built in the Herodian period, and there can hardly be a doubt that it was the one built by the centurion, and in which Christ often preached. See "Edersheim's Jewish Social Life", page 255.
Other People's Commentary (NT) entries containing Matthew 8:5:
Matthew 8:5
Luke 7:2-10
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