entered: Mat 4:13, Mat 9:1, Mat 11:23; Mar 2:1; Luk 7:1
a centurion: This was a Roman military title; and therefore this officer may be concluded to have been a Gentile. (See fuller particulars under Mar 15:39.) Mat 27:54; Mar 15:39; Luk 7:2-10; Act 10:1-33, Act 22:25, Act 23:17, Act 23:23, Act 27:13, Act 27:31, Act 27:43