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Matthew 8:4-6
Lexham English Bible
Matthew 8:4-6
Lexham English Bible
4 And Jesus said to him, “See that you tell no one, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”
A Centurion’s Slave Healed
5 Now when[a] he entered Capernaum, a centurion approached him, appealing to him 6 and saying, “Lord, my slave[b] is lying paralyzed in my[c] house, terribly tormented!”
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- Matthew 8:5 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“entered”)
- Matthew 8:6 Traditionally “servant”; the Greek term here is one often used of a slave who was regarded with some degree of affection, possibly a personal servant (the parallel passage in Luke 7:7 uses the more common term for slave)
- Matthew 8:6 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
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