Centurion Slave Essay

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This miracle which Jesus performs is a healing miracle; however it reveals that Jesus is the messiah that the Jews had been waiting for. Though Jesus wasn’t everything that they had expected from the messiah, as they wanted a warrior who was going to save them from the roman rule, and Jesus was just a carpenter. Though by him performing other miracles it does show that Jesus was the messiah that had been prophesised, as the bible had said there would be an abundance of food, and this is shown through the miracle of the feeding of the 5000, where everyone was able to be fed, with 5 baskets spare. Carrying on from this point this miracle of the healing of the centurion slave shows that Jesus was a universal messiah, as even though the centurion and his slave were both gentiles it didn’t stop him from helping them, this trait is also shown in the miracle where Jesus helps the woman whose daughter is possessed by a demon. In addition to this, it was believed that the kingdom of God would arrive with the messiah, and this is shown in the miracle of the centurion slave when Jesus says to the centurion “feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob”. From this miracle we see that you can get to heaven as long as you have faith in God, as the centurion did. Yet again it shows that Jesus is a universal messiah, as he lets a gentile into the kingdom of God. Furthermore, scholars like Jeremais, would say that the kingdom of God has not fully arrived, it will only fully arrive after the parousia, this is known as Inaugurated Eschatology. This miracle supports this as Jesus say that you will “feast with , Isaac and Jacob” in heaven, this would be after the parousia, when the good will be rewarded and the evil punished by going to hell. This miracle shows Jesus’ divinity as he is able to heal a person from afar, which is supernormal: this also emphasises that he is the son of God as
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