Luke 23:47

Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.

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Word	Greek	Strong’s	Meaning
Now	δὲ de	G1161	but · conjunction
centurion	ἑκατοντάρχης hekatontarchēs	G1543	the captain of one hundred men · noun — nominative singular masculine
saw	Ἰδὼν Idōn	G1492	used only in certain past tenses · verb — second aorist active participle, nominative singular masculine
what	ὁ ho	G3588	the (sometimes to be supplied · article — nominative singular masculine
done	γενόμενον genomenon	G1096	to cause to be ("gen"-erate) · verb — second aorist middle deponent participle, accusative singular neuter
glorified	ἐδόξαζεν edoxazen	G1392	to render (or esteem) glorious (in a wide application) · verb — imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular
God	θεὸν theon	G2316	figuratively · noun — accusative singular masculine, a title
saying	λέγων· legōn	G3004	properly · verb — present active participle, nominative singular masculine
Certainly	ὄντως ontōs	G3689	really · adverb
this	οὗτος houtos	G3778	the he (she or it) · demonstrative pronoun — nominative singular masculine
was	ἦν ēn	G2258	I (thou
righteous	δίκαιος dikaios	G1342	equitable (in character or act) · adjective — nominative singular masculine
man	ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos	G444	from G3700 (ὀπτάνομαι)) · noun — nominative singular masculine

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Matthew 27:54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatl…
Mark 15:39 And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son o…
Luke 23:41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
Matthew 9:8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.
John 19:7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Luke 23:44-49

In these verses we have three things: - I. Christ's dying magnified by the prodigies that attended it: only two are here mentioned, which we had an account of before. 1. The darkening of the sun at noon-day. It was now about the sixth hour, that is, according to our computation, twelve o'clock at noon; and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. The sun was eclipsed and the air exceedingly clouded at the same time, both which concurred to this thick darkness, which continued three hours, not three days, as that of Egypt did. 2. The rending of the veil of the temple. The former prodigy was in the heavens, this in the temple; for both these are the houses of God, and, wh…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 23:43

Jesus said, &c.--The dying Redeemer speaks as if He Himself viewed it in this light. It was a "song in the night." It ministered cheer to His spirit in the midnight gloom that now enwrapt it. Verily I say unto thee--"Since thou speakest as to the king, with kingly authority speak I to thee." To-day--"Thou art prepared for a long delay before I come into My kingdom, but not a day's delay shall there be for thee; thou shalt not be parted from Me even for a moment, but together we shall go, and with Me, ere this day expire, shalt thou be in Paradise" (future bliss, Co2 12:4; Rev 2:7). Learn (1) How "One is taken and another left"; (2) How easily divine teaching can raise the rudest and wors…

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Adam Clarke on Luke 23:46

Into thy hands I commend my spirit - Or, I will commit my spirit - I deposit my soul in thy hands. Another proof of the immateriality of the soul, and of its separate existence when the body is dead.

John Gill on Luke 23:47

Now when the centurion saw what was done,.... The eclipse of the sun, the darkness upon the land, the earthquake, the rocks rent, and Jesus expire in so uncommon a manner: he glorified God; by confessing that Christ was the Son of God, and declaring him an innocent person: saying, certainly, this was a righteous man; clear of the charges exhibited against him, and has suffered wrongfully; and this he concluded from those unusual appearances, and which he considered as tokens of divine resentment.

The Church Fathers

O the breasts of the Jews, harder than the rocks! The judge acquits, the officer believes, the traitor by his death condemns his own crime, the elements flee away, the earth quakes, the graves are opened; the hardness of the Jews still remains immoveable, though the whole world is shaken.
— Ambrose of Milan ((as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)), Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Nothing therefore remained upon the cross, nothing hung there, after "the giving up of the ghost; " there was nothing to beg of Pilate, nothing to take down from the cross, nothing to wrap in the linen, nothing to lay in the new sepulchre. Still it was not nothing that was there.
— Tertullian, Against Marcion Book IV

Jesus' kinsfolk stood far off so that [the word of the psalmist] might be fulfilled: "My neighbors stood far off." They killed him before the sabbath, while there was opportunity for death, and before the sabbath they buried him, while there was place for mourning. For the sabbath itself is the boundary mark for toil, and on it all distress must remain [hidden] within. There is no place for suffering on it, and neither has it any share in corruption.
— Ephrem the Syrian, COMMENTARY ON TATIAN'S DIATESSARON 21.8

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Dictionary and topics

Centurion — A Roman officer in command of a hundred men (Mark 15:39, 44, 45). Cornelius, the first Gentile convert, was a centurion (Acts 10:1, 22). Other centurions are mentioned in Matt. 8:5, 8, 13; Luke 7:2,…
Humiliation of Christ — (Phil. 2:8), seen in (1) his birth (Gal. 4:4; Luke 2:7; John 1:46; Heb. 2:9), (2) his circumstances, (3) his reputation (Isa. 53; Matt. 26:59, 67; Ps. 22:6; Matt. 26:68), (4) his soul (Ps. 22:1;…
Centurion · this was the — this was the
Glorifying God · Exemplified: Centurion — Exemplified: Centurion
Missionaries, All Christians Should Be As · Exemplified: Centurion — Exemplified: Centurion

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Luke 23:47

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Luke 23:44-49

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 23:43

Adam Clarke on Luke 23:46

John Gill on Luke 23:47

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Luke 23:47

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Luke 23:44-49

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 23:43

Adam Clarke on Luke 23:46

John Gill on Luke 23:47

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Luke 23:44-49

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Luke 23:47