When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
Ver. 10. He marvelled, and said, &c.] What can be so great a marvel as that Christ marvelleth? So he wondered at his own work in Nathanael, John 1:47, and at his own love to miserable mankind, when he calls himself "Wonderful, Counsellor," &c.,Isaiah 9:6. He wondereth not, as the disciples did, at the magnificence of the temple; he was not a whit taken with all the beauty and bravery of the world set before him by the devil, as it were in a landscape; but at the centurion's faith he much marvelled, it being a work of his own almighty power, which he puts not forth but for great purposes, Ephesians 1:19. Where is easy to observe in the original a sixfold gradation.