Luke 7:9 - Exposition

When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him . Augustine strikingly comments here on the expression ἐθαύμασε , he marvelled: "Who had inspired that faith but he who now admires it?" In marvelling at it he intimated that we ought to admire. He admires for our good, that we may imitate the centurion's faith; such movements in Christ are not signs of perturbation of mind, but are exemplary and hortatory to us . I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. St . Augustine remarks here that "the Lord had found in the oleaster what he had not found in the olive."