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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

百夫長聽見耶穌的事，就打發猶太人中幾個長老到他那裡，求他去醫治他的奴僕。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
百 夫 长 风 闻 耶 稣 的 事 ， 就 托 犹 太 人 的 几 个 长 老 去 求 耶 稣 来 救 他 的 仆 人 。

Contextual Overview

¹ When Jesus finished saying all these things to the people, he went to Capernaum. ² There was an army officer who had a servant who was very important to him. The servant was so sick he was nearly dead. ³ When the officer heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him to ask Jesus to come and heal his servant. ⁴ The men went to Jesus and begged him, saying, "This officer is worthy of your help. ⁵ He loves our people, and he built us a synagogue." ⁶ So Jesus went with the men. He was getting near the officer's house when the officer sent friends to say, "Lord, don't trouble yourself, because I am not worthy to have you come into my house. ⁷ That is why I did not come to you myself. But you only need to command it, and my servant will be healed. ⁸ I, too, am a man under the authority of others, and I have soldiers under my command. I tell one soldier, ‘Go,' and he goes. I tell another soldier, ‘Come,' and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,' and my servant does it." ⁹ When Jesus heard this, he was amazed. Turning to the crowd that was following him, he said, "I tell you, this is the greatest faith I have found anywhere, even in Israel." ¹⁰ Those who had been sent to Jesus went back to the house where they found the servant in good health.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 8:41, Luke 9:38, Matthew 8:5, John 4:47, Philemon 1:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 23:8 - entreat 1 Kings 14:3 - he shall tell Mark 5:23 - besought Luke 4:38 - they 1 Thessalonians 5:13 - and be James 5:16 - Confess

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when he heard of Jesus,.... That he was come, as the Ethiopic version adds, into the city of Capernaum; or of his miracles, which he had done there, and elsewhere:

he sent unto him the elders of the Jews: in whom he had an interest, judging himself, being a Gentile, very unworthy and unfit to go himself, and ask a favour of so great a person as Christ was, such was his modesty and humility. These elders he sent, were not the more ancient inhabitants of the city, called זקני עם הארץ, "the elders of, or among the common people", as distinguished from זקני תורה, "the elders of the law", or those that were old in knowledge; of both which it is said by R. Simeon ben Achasia m, that

"the elders of the common people, when they grow old, their knowledge fails in them, as it is said, John 12:20 but so it is not with the "elders of the law"; but when they grow old, their knowledge rests in them, as it is said,

Job 12:12.''

But these were either some principal officers of the city, called the elders of the people elsewhere; particularly, who were members of the sanhedrim; for as elders, when they design the elders in Jerusalem, mean the great sanhedrim n there; so elders, in other places, intend the sanhedrim, consisting of twenty one persons, or the bench of three; and such were these, the centurion sent to Christ:

beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant: he besought him most earnestly by these messengers, that he would come to his house, and cure his servant of the palsy, by laying his hands on him, or commanding the distemper off, by a word speaking; or in what way he should think fit, for he made no doubt that he was able to heal him.

m Misn. Kenim, c. 3. sect. 6. n T. Hieros. Sota, fol. 23. 3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 7:3. Elders of the Jews — These were either magistrates in the place, or the elders of the synagogue which the centurion had built, Luke 7:5. He sent these, probably, because he was afraid to come to Christ himself, not being a Jew, either by nation or religion. In the parallel place in Matthew, he is represented as coming to Christ himself; but it is a usual form of speech in all nations, to attribute the act to a person which is done not by himself, but by his authority.