Luke 23:47

47 When ye Centurion sawe what had happened he glorified God sayinge: Of a surtie this man was perfecte.

Luke 23:47 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 23:47

Now when the centurion saw what was done
The eclipse of the sun, the darkness upon the land, the earthquake, the rocks rent, and Jesus expire in so uncommon a manner:

he glorified God;
by confessing that Christ was the Son of God, and declaring him an innocent person:

saying, certainly, this was a righteous man;
clear of the charges exhibited against him, and has suffered wrongfully; and this he concluded from those unusual appearances, and which he considered as tokens of divine resentment.

Luke 23:47 In-Context

45 and the sonne was darckened. And the vayle of the temple dyd rent even thorow the myddes.

46 And Iesus cryed with a greate voyce and sayd: Father into thy hondes I comende my sprete. And when he thus had sayd he gave vp the goost.

47 When ye Centurion sawe what had happened he glorified God sayinge: Of a surtie this man was perfecte.

48 And all the people that came to geder to that sight beholdynge the thinges which were done: smoote their bestes and returned home.

49 And all his acquayntaunce and the wemen that folowed him from Galile stode a farre of beholdynge these thinges.