Luke 7:2 meaning and explanation

There a highly valued servant of a centurion was sick and about to die.

Luke 7:2, Berean Standard Bible

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Luke has just finished Jesus' Sermon on the Plain, and now Jesus enters Capernaum, the lakeside town that serves as his base in Galilee. The centurion is a Roman officer, a Gentile commander in occupied Jewish territory, and the servant is described with a Greek word, doulos, meaning slave, one his master valued highly.

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