Matthew 27:54

The centurion and his men, terrified by the signs, confess Jesus as the Son of God. Even Gentile soldiers recognize His true identity.

Cross-references · 21

• Matt 27:36and they sat and watched him there.
• Mark 15:39When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
• Matt 27:43He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
• Luke 23:47–49When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.”
• Rom 1:4who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
• Acts 27:1When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.
• Matt 4:3The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
• Matt 8:5When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him,
• Acts 23:23He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.”
• Acts 27:43But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;
• Rev 11:13In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
• Acts 21:32Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.
• Acts 23:17Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, “Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him.”
• Acts 2:37Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
• Acts 10:1Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,
• Matt 27:40and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”
• John 19:7The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”
• 2 Kgs 1:13–14Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, “Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty of your servants, be precious in your sight.
• Matt 26:63But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
• Luke 22:70They all said, “Are you then the Son of God?” He said to them, “You say it, because I am.”
• Acts 16:29–30He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

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