1) Jesus has compassion on them. Throughout the Bible, one of God’s chief and most celebrated attributes is that of compassion. In Exodus 34 when Moses says to God, show me your glory! God says, The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness. (Ex 34:6-7).
6. he marvelled] Our Lord does not marvel at other human things generally, but He does marvel on the one hand, at faith, when, as in the case of the centurion, it overcomes in its grandeur all human hindrances, and, on the other, at unbelief, when it can, in the face of numerous Divine manifestations, harden itself into a wilful rejection of Himself. . 467 276 156 476 410 192 172 357