Matthew 27:54

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

Saw

Mark 15:39

Luke 23:47

Feared

Truly

Romans 1:4

General references

Bible References

Saw

Now when the centurion, who stood in front of him, saw how he died, he said, "Truly this man was God's Son!"

Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he praised God and said, "Certainly this man was innocent!"

Feared

The king sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. He begged for mercy, "Prophet, please have respect for my life and for the lives of these fifty servants of yours.

Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "What should we do, brothers?"

Calling for lights, the jailer rushed in and fell down trembling at the feet of Paul and Silas.

Just then a major earthquake took place and a tenth of the city collapsed; seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

Truly

and saying, "You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are God's Son, come down from the cross!"

But Jesus was silent. The high priest said to him, "I charge you under oath by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God."

So they all said, "Are you the Son of God, then?" He answered them, "You say that I am."

The Jewish leaders replied, "We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!"

who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.

General references

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Then the officials and all the people rendered their verdict to the priests and the prophets. They said, "This man should not be condemned to die. For he has spoken to us under the authority of the Lord our God."

Then they sat down and kept guard over him there.

He answered, "I tell you, if they keep silent, the very stones will cry out!"