4When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, “This man deserves to have you do this, 5because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.” 6So Jesus went with them. 3The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. 2There (was) a centurion's servant, whom his master valued highly, (who) was sick and about to die. ‘ 1When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people who were listening, he entered Capernaum. This is the wonderful value of having different accounts of the same events and my method of teaching is to use the fullest account of the events (which in this case is Luke) and to supplement that with any information that comes from other Gospel accounts - and in this case Matthew is going to help us when he fills out some of the details of Jesus' teaching about faith - a very exciting way that we're going to end this episode. At the end, Jesus gives a teaching and, at that point, Matthew gives a fuller account of the teaching that Jesus gives. Luke extended and explained the narrative more fully. Luke almost certainly wrote after Matthew and, if you remember the teaching I gave at the very beginning of Series 1, you'll know the reasons why I have for thinking that. We're going to follow Luke's slightly extended narrative. If you compare Luke and Matthew's account, you'll find that Matthew compresses the narrative slightly, and he speaks of the centurion actually coming and personally talking to Jesus, asking him to come to his house whereas Luke expands the narrative somewhat and you realise that it's the representatives of the centurion who come out - two groups who come to speak to him about the particular crisis that is taking place in his home. It was a fishing village on the north-west shore of the Sea of Galilee and Jesus based his operations in Capernaum, even though he came from another village slightly further to the south and west, called Nazareth. In Series 4, we had the Sermon on the Mount, which took place on a hill in Galilee, somewhere not too far from Capernaum.Ĭapernaum, as those of you who remember earlier episodes will know, was the base town of Jesus' ministry - it was actually the home of some of his disciples, including Peter. These were going to be the founding leaders of the Early Church, his leading representatives, and those who shared his ministry and his authority. Then, in Series 3, Jesus' first tour of Galilee - where he travels around the whole area (Galilee is the northern province of Israel and the home province of Jesus) and then, at the end of Series 3, there was that very important moment when Jesus appointed twelve Apostles from amongst his disciples. In Series 2, the beginning of Jesus' ministry, based in Galilee. In Series 1, we started with the birth of Jesus and his early years. We're moving to another stage as we begin Series 5. As we look over all the series that we've done so far, we can see the pattern of the story emerging and developing. We had 18 episodes when we looked at that powerful, profound and foundational discipleship teaching that Jesus gives for all his followers. I've just completed the amazing teaching of Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount, in Series 4. I hope you have been with us on the journey so far. This is recorded in both Luke's and Matthew's Gospels but we can take the story mainly from Luke 7: 1 - 10. Hello and welcome to the beginning of Series 5 Episode 1, which recounts an amazing miracle: 'The Healing of the Centurion's Servant'.
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