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Bishop's Bible

Luke 7:5

For he loueth our nation, and hath built vs a synagogue.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Capernaum;   Centurion;   Faith;   Heathen;   Jesus, the Christ;   Kindness;   Liberality;   Love;   Miracles;   Prayer;   Religion;   Servant;   Synagogue;   Scofield Reference Index - Faith;   Resurrection;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Love to Man;   Synagogues;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Centurion;   Synagogue;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Luke, gospel of;   Synagogue;   War;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Synagogue;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Capernaum;   Palsy;   Proselyte;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Banquets;   Capernaum;   Jesus Christ;   Proselytes;   Synagogue;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   Luke, Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Capernaum;   Centurion;   John, Gospel of;   Proselyte;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Almsgiving ;   Boy ;   Building ;   Centurion ;   Consciousness;   Cures;   Grecians, Greeks;   Individuality;   Joanna ;   Logia;   Nation;   Nation (2);   Nationality;   Paralysis;   Police;   Proselyte (2);   Sea of Galilee;   Synagogue;   Synagogue (2);   Winter ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gentiles;   Miracles;   Synagogue;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Synagogue;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Proselyte;   Synagogue;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Capernaum;   Palestine (Recent Exploration, I.e. as of 1915);   Rome;   Synagogue;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - New Testament;   Synagogue;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
because he loves our nation and has built us a synagogue.”
King James Version (1611)
For he loueth our nation, and hee hath built vs a Synagogue.
King James Version
For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.
English Standard Version
for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue."
New American Standard Bible
for he loves our nation, and it was he who built us our synagogue."
New Century Version
He loves our people, and he built us a synagogue."
Amplified Bible
because he loves our nation and he built us our synagogue [at his own expense]."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
for he loves our nation and it was he who built us our synagogue."
Legacy Standard Bible
for he loves our nation and it was he who built us our synagogue."
Berean Standard Bible
for he loves our nation and has built our synagogue."
Contemporary English Version
He loves our nation and even built us a meeting place."
Complete Jewish Bible
for he loves our people — in fact, he built the synagogue for us!"
Darby Translation
for he loves our nation, and himself has built the synagogue for us.
Easy-to-Read Version
He loves our people and he built the synagogue for us."
Geneva Bible (1587)
For he loueth, said they, our nation, and he hath built vs a Synagogue.
George Lamsa Translation
For he loves our people, and has even built us a synagogue.
Good News Translation
He loves our people and he himself built a synagogue for us."
Lexham English Bible
because he loves our nation and he himself built the synagogue for us."
Literal Translation
For he loves our nation, and he built the synagogue for us.
American Standard Version
for he loveth our nation, and himself built us our synagogue.
Bible in Basic English
It is right for you to do this for him, because he is a friend to our nation, and himself has put up a Synagogue for us.
Hebrew Names Version
for he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us."
International Standard Version
because he loves our people and built our synagogue for us."
Etheridge Translation
for he loveth our people, and also a synagogue [fn] he hath built for us.
Murdock Translation
for he loveth our nation, and hath also built us a house of assembly.
English Revised Version
for he loveth our nation, and himself built us our synagogue.
World English Bible
for he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For he loveth our nation, and hath himself built us a synagogue.
Weymouth's New Testament
for he loves our nation, and at his own expense he built our synagogue for us."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for he loueth oure folk, and he bildide to vs a synagoge.
Update Bible Version
for he loves our nation, and himself built us our synagogue.
Webster's Bible Translation
For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.
New English Translation
because he loves our nation, and even built our synagogue."
New King James Version
"for he loves our nation, and has built us a synagogue."
New Living Translation
"for he loves the Jewish people and even built a synagogue for us."
New Life Bible
He loves our nation and has built our Jewish place of worship."
New Revised Standard
for he loves our people, and it is he who built our synagogue for us."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
for he loveth our nation, and, the synagogue, he, built for us.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For he loveth our nation: and he hath built us a synagogue.
Revised Standard Version
for he loves our nation, and he built us our synagogue."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For he loveth oure nacion and hath bilt vs a sinagoge
Young's Literal Translation
for he doth love our nation, and the synagogue he did build to us.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for he loueth oure people, & hath buylded vs ye synagoge.
Mace New Testament (1729)
and hath built us a synagogue at his own charge.
Simplified Cowboy Version
The marshal has done a lot for our country and he has helped build some of our churches."

Contextual Overview

1 When he had ended all his sayinges, in the audience of the people, he entred into Capernaum. 2 And a certayne Centurions seruaunt, which was deare vnto hym, lay sicke, and was in peryll of death. 3 And when he hearde of Iesus, he sent vnto hym the elders of the Iewes, besechyng hym that he woulde come, and heale his seruaunt. 4 And when they came to Iesus, they besought hym instantly, saying he is worthy that thou shouldest do this for hym. 5 For he loueth our nation, and hath built vs a synagogue. 6 Then Iesus went with them. And when he was nowe not farre from the house, the Centurion sent friendes to hym, saying vnto hym: Lorde, trouble not thy selfe, for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter vnder my roofe. 7 Wherefore I thought not my selfe worthy to come vnto thee: but say thou the worde, & my seruaunt shalbe whole. 8 For I also am a man, set vnder power, and haue vnder me souldiers: and I say vnto one go, and he goeth: and to another, come, and he commeth: and to my seruaunt, do this, and he doth it. 9 When Iesus hearde these thynges, he marueyled at hym, and turned hym about, and sayde to the people that folowed hym: I say vnto you, I haue not founde so great fayth, no, not in Israel. 10 And they that were sent, turned backe home agayne, and founde the seruaunt whole, that had ben sicke.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he loveth: 1 Kings 5:1, 2 Chronicles 2:11, 2 Chronicles 2:12, Galatians 5:6, 1 John 3:14, 1 John 5:1-3

and: 1 Chronicles 29:3-9, Ezra 7:27, Ezra 7:28, 1 John 3:18, 1 John 3:19

Reciprocal: Acts 10:2 - which Acts 10:22 - of good

Cross-References

Genesis 6:22
Noah therfore dyd according vnto all that God commaunded hym [euen] so dyd he.
Exodus 39:32
Thus was all the worke of the tabernacle [euen] of the tabernacle of the congregation finished: And the children of Israel did according to al that the lorde commaunded Moyses, euen so did they.
Exodus 40:16
And Moyses dyd accordyng to all that the Lorde commaunded hym, euen so dyd he.
Psalms 119:6
I shall take then no shame: when I haue regarde vnto all thy commaundementes.
Matthew 3:15
Iesus aunsweryng, sayde vnto hym: Suffer it to be so nowe. For thus it becommeth vs, to fulfyll all righteousnes. Then he suffred hym.
Luke 8:21
He aunswered, and sayde vnto them: My mother & my brethren are these, which heare the worde of God, & do it.
John 2:5
His mother sayth vnto the ministers: Whatsoeuer he sayth vnto you, do it.
John 13:17
Yf ye knowe these thynges, happy are ye, yf ye do them.
Philippians 2:8
He humbled hym selfe, made obedient vnto death, euen the death of the crosse.
Hebrews 5:8
Though he were the sonne, yet learned he obediece, by these thinges which he suffred:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he loveth our nation,.... The Jewish nation, which was Christ's nation, as well as theirs, he being a Jew; see John 18:35. This they mention as an argument to induce him to have a regard to the centurion, though he was a Gentile; since he was a friend of the Jews, and well affected and disposed to them, which was very rare: it was not common for the Gentiles to love the Jews, any more than the Jews the Gentiles; there was an hatred, yea, an enmity between them; but this man, very likely, was a proselyte to their religion, as the following instance seems to show:

and he hath built us a synagogue; at his own private charge, and by the assistance of his soldiers under him, whom he might employ in this work: sometimes a single person built a synagogue at his own expense, and gave it to the citizens; of which the Jews say, o

"if a man builds an house, and afterwards devotes it to a synagogue, it is as a synagogue.''

o Piske Harosh Megilia, c. 4. art. 1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 7:5. He loveth our nation — He is a warm friend to the Jews; and has given a full proof of his affection to them in building them a synagogue. This he had done at his own proper charges; having no doubt employed his own men in the work.


 
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