Luke 7:5

THE MESSAGE

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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For he loueth our nation, and hath built vs a synagogue.

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

¹When he finished speaking to the people, he entered Capernaum. A Roman captain there had a servant who was on his deathbed. He prized him highly and didn't want to lose him. When he heard Jesus was back, he sent leaders from the Jewish community asking him to come and heal his servant. They came to Jesus and urged him to do it, saying, "He deserves this. He loves our people. He even built our meeting place." ⁶Jesus went with them. When he was still quite far from the house, the captain sent friends to tell him, "Master, you don't have to go to all this trouble. I'm not that good a person, you know. I'd be embarrassed for you to come to my house, even embarrassed to come to you in person. Just give the order and my servant will get well. I'm a man under orders; I also give orders. I tell one soldier, ‘Go,' and he goes; another, ‘Come,' and he comes; my slave, ‘Do this,' and he does it." ⁹Taken aback, Jesus addressed the accompanying crowd: "I've yet to come across this kind of simple trust anywhere in Israel, the very people who are supposed to know about God and how he works." When the messengers got back home, they found the servant up and well.

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 did everything God commanded him to do.

Exodus 39:32
That completed the work of The Dwelling, the Tent of Meeting. The People of Israel did what God had commanded Moses. They did it all.

Exodus 40:16
Moses did everything God commanded. He did it all.

Matthew 3:15
But Jesus insisted. "Do it. God's work, putting things right all these centuries, is coming together right now in this baptism." So John did it.

Luke 8:21
He replied, "My mother and brothers are the ones who hear and do God's Word. Obedience is thicker than blood."

John 2:5
She went ahead anyway, telling the servants, "Whatever he tells you, do it."

John 13:17
Washing His Disciples' Feet Just before the Passover Feast, Jesus knew that the time had come to leave this world to go to the Father. Having loved his dear companions, he continued to love them right to the end. It was suppertime. The Devil by now had Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, firmly in his grip, all set for the betrayal. Jesus knew that the Father had put him in complete charge of everything, that he came from God and was on his way back to God. So he got up from the supper table, set aside his robe, and put on an apron. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples, drying them with his apron. When he got to Simon Peter, Peter said, "Master, you wash my feet?" Jesus answered, "You don't understand now what I'm doing, but it will be clear enough to you later." Peter persisted, "You're not going to wash my feet—ever!" Jesus said, "If I don't wash you, you can't be part of what I'm doing." "Master!" said Peter. "Not only my feet, then. Wash my hands! Wash my head!" Jesus said, "If you've had a bath in the morning, you only need your feet washed now and you're clean from head to toe. My concern, you understand, is holiness, not hygiene. So now you're clean. But not every one of you." (He knew who was betraying him. That's why he said, "Not every one of you.") After he had finished washing their feet, he took his robe, put it back on, and went back to his place at the table. Then he said, "Do you understand what I have done to you? You address me as ‘Teacher' and ‘Master,' and rightly so. That is what I am. So if I, the Master and Teacher, washed your feet, you must now wash each other's feet. I've laid down a pattern for you. What I've done, you do. I'm only pointing out the obvious. A servant is not ranked above his master; an employee doesn't give orders to the employer. If you understand what I'm telling you, act like it—and live a blessed life.

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.