Luke 7:1-10 Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum.… He was — 1. A soldier accustomed to scenes of bloodshed, yet preserving, amid all the hardening tendencies of his profession, a tender heart. 2. A slave-owner, yet solicitous for the welfare of his slave. 3. A representative of the usurping power, yet one who had secured the respect and affection of the leaders of the subjugated people among whom he lived. 4. A proselyte to the religion of Israel, yet more truly religious than the people whose religion he had adopted. 5. A Pagan by birth, a Jew by conversion, a Christian by faith. "The first heathen man of whom we read, that he acknowledged Christ." Learn that a true religious faith is able to overcome in the man who possesses it the untoward influences of (a) birth; (b) training: (c) calling; (d) circumstances. (J. R. Bailey.) Parallel Verses KJV: Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum.WEB: After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum. |
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