Luke 23:47 (WEB)
When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.”
Catechism · 1
“Those who called Jesus "son of God", as the Messiah of Israel, perhaps meant nothing more than this.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. I Chr 17:13; Ps 2:7; Mt 27:54; Lk 23:47.
Fathers and councils · 11
Augustine of Hippo
“Luke’s report runs thus: “Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiii. 47.
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John Chrysostom
“And the multitudes that came together to that sight, returned beating their breasts.”” — editor's note: Luke xxiii. 47, 48.
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Tertullian
“And so the “pressure” must be maintained up to that hour in which the orb—involved from the sixth hour in a general darkness—performed for its dead Lord a sorrowful act of duty; so that we too may then return to enjoyment when the universe regained its sunshine.” — editor's note: See Matt. xxvii. 45–54; Mark xvi. 33–39; Luke xxiii. 44–47.
Read the whole comment“Nothing therefore remained upon the cross, nothing hung there, after “the giving up of the ghost;” there was nothing to beg of Pilate, nothing to take down from the cross, nothing to wrap in the linen, nothing to lay in the new sepulchre.” — editor's note: See these stages in Luke xxiii. 47–55.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
When after uttering that voice He immediately gave up the ghost, those who were present greatly marvelled. For those who hung upon the cross were generally tortured by a prolonged death. Hence it is said, Now when…
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There is no contradiction in that Matthew says, that the centurion seeing the earthquake marvelled, whereas Luke says that he marvelled, that Jesus while uttering the loud voice expired, shewing what power He had…
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The words of our Lord seem now to be fulfilled, wherein He said, When I shall be lifted up I will draw all men unto me. For when lifted upon the cross He drew to Him the thief and the centurion, besides some of the…
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By their smiting their breasts as if betokening a penitential sorrow, two things may be understood; either that they bewailed Him unjustly slain whose life they loved, or that remembering that they had demanded His…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
O the breasts of the Jews, harder than the rocks! The judge acquits, the officer believes, the traitor by his death condemns his own crime, the elements flee away, the earth quakes, the graves are opened; the…
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Rightly then by the centurion is the faith of the Church signified, which in the silence of the synagogue bears witness to the Son of God. And now is fulfilled that complaint which the Lord makes to His Father,…
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But the race of women formerly cursed remains and sees all these things; for it follows, And the women which followed him from Galilee, seeing these things. And thus they are the first to be renewed by justification,…
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in Catechism §441.
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Cited together in Bede on Luke 23:47–49 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §441.
Cited together in Catechism §441.
Cited together in Catechism §441.
Cited together in Catechism §441.
Cited together in Catechism §441.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.21.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.21.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.21.
Cited together in Catechism §441 and 1 other place.