The centurion answered, “Lord, I am not worthy to have You come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
Matthew 8:8. Lord, I do not deserve that thou shouldest come under my roof Matthew’s narrative is more concise, and represents the man as saying this; while Luke explains more fully, that this was a message sent by his friends: but the meaning of both is the same. There are two leading points in this discourse.
Here stood a soldier, a Roman, a Gentile, dwelling among the Jews as a badge of their subjection, yet godly and zealous. Christ received him and favored him; therein He teaches us to do good even to our enemies and shows Himself a light to the Gentiles as well as the glory of Israel. Grace conquers where it is least expected and proves itself more than a conqueror.
AI summary
Commenting on Matthew 8:5-13
For I am a man under authority,.... Of Caesar the Roman emperor, and of superior officers under him, as a tribune, &c. having soldiers under me; an hundred of them at least, for military service, and some of them were used by him as his domestics: and I say unto this man go, and he goeth, and to another come, and he cometh: for there...