Luke 7:2
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New International Version (©2011)
There a centurion's servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die.

New Living Translation (©2007)
At that time the highly valued slave of a Roman officer was sick and near death.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And a centurion's slave, who was highly regarded by him, was sick and about to die.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
A centurion's slave, who was highly valued by him, was sick and about to die.

International Standard Version (©2012)
There a centurion's servant, whom he valued highly, was sick and about to die.

NET Bible (©2006)
A centurion there had a slave who was highly regarded, but who was sick and at the point of death.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
But the servant of a certain Centurion who was precious to him had become ill, and he had come near to death.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
There a Roman army officer's valuable slave was sick and near death.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick, and ready to die.

American King James Version
And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick, and ready to die.

American Standard Version
And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick and at the point of death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the servant of a certain centurion, who was dear to him, being sick, was ready to die.

Darby Bible Translation
And a certain centurion's bondman who was dear to him was ill and about to die;

English Revised Version
And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick and at the point of death.

Webster's Bible Translation
And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick, and ready to die.

Weymouth New Testament
Here the servant of a certain Captain, a man dear to his master, was ill and at the point of death;

World English Bible
A certain centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death.

Young's Literal Translation
and a certain centurion's servant being ill, was about to die, who was much valued by him,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:1-10 Servants should study to endear themselves to their masters. Masters ought to take particular care of their servants when they are sick. We may still, by faithful and fervent prayer, apply to Christ, and ought to do so when sickness is in our families. The building places for religious worship is a good work, and an instance of love to God and his people. Our Lord Jesus was pleased with the centurion's faith; and he never fails to answer the expectations of that faith which honours his power and love. The cure soon wrought and perfect.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 2. - And a certain centurion's servant; literally, slave. The difference is important, as we shall see in the picture presented to us of the centurion's character. A centurion was an officer in the Roman army: the grade answers to the modern European captain - German, hauptmann; the command included a hundred soldiers. Scholars are not agreed respecting the special service of this particular officer. Some consider he was a Greek or Syrian holding a commission under the prince of the country, the tetrach Herod Antipas; others, that he was in the service of the empire, with a small detachment of the garrison of Caesarea, doing duty at the important lake-city, probably in connection with the revenue. It is clear that Roman garrisons at this period were dotted about the various centres of population in these semi-dependent states. At Jerusalem we know a considerable Roman force was stationed, professedly to keep order in the turbulent capital, but really, no doubt, to overawe the national party. Was sick, and ready to die. St. Matthew calls the disease paralysis, and adds that the sufferer was in extreme pain. The disorder was probably some dangerous form of rheumatic fever, which not unfrequently attacks the region of the heart, and is accompanied with severe pain, and proves in many instances fatal. The ordinary, paralysis would scarcely be accompanied with the acute pain mentioned by St. Matthew.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And a certain centurion's servant,.... The same that Matthew makes mention of, Matthew 8:5; see Gill on Matthew 8:5. See Gill on Matthew 8:6.

who was dear unto him; to the centurion, being an honest, upright, faithful, and obliging servant; as Tabi was to Rabban Gamaliel, of whom his master said (l),

"Tabi my servant, is not as other servants, , "he is upright".''

was sick: of a palsy; see Matthew 8:6,

and ready to die; in all appearance his case was desperate, and there was no help for him by any human means, which makes the following cure, the more remarkable.

(l) T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 16. 2.

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The Centurion's Great Faith
1Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum. 2And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick, and ready to die. 3And when he heard of Jesus, he sent to him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant. …

Luke 7:1 When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people who were listening, he entered Capernaum.
Luke 7:3 The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant.