Bible Discussion Thread

Jesus praises the centurion that loves and respects him and is willing to become a follower and Christian. In verse 18, Jews and Romans were gathering their sick and afflicted in a large group and asking Jesus to heal them without first wanting to believe in Jesus as the Son of God and convert to Christianity. They wanted Jesus to use his power to heal yet they did not want first to stop worshiping their own gods. That is what is meant when “the son of man (the opposite of the son of God = the evil one) has no place to lay his head. They cannot rest in the peaceful healing protection of God because they reject Jesus as the son of God. The thoughts in their head were to use Jesus as a healer of bodily ailments while rejecting his ability to heal their spiritual life. Jesus did not want to heal people that refused to stop worshipping false gods and refused to stop believing in false doctrine so he wanted to leave the area. Son of God affirms the divinity of Jesus and Jesus died on the cross because he refused to be called the son of man.