Centurion
6 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
A Commander of Approximately One-Hundred Soldiers in the Roman Army
- Mark 15:44–45 Pilate was surprised to hear that Jesus was already dead, so he summoned the centurion to ask if this was so. …
- Acts 21:32 Immediately he took some soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When the people saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
- Acts 22:25–26 But as they stretched him out to strap him down, Paul said to the centurion standing there, “Is it lawful for you to flog a Roman citizen without a trial?” …
- Acts 23:17 Then Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the commander; he has something to tell him.”
- Acts 23:23 Then he called two of his centurions and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea in the third hour of the night.
- Acts 24:23 He ordered the centurion to keep Paul under guard, but to allow him some freedom and permit his friends to minister to his needs.
Related topics
Centurion in Charge of the Soldiers Who Crucified Jesus, Testifies, “Truly This Was the Son of God”Centurion of Capernaum, Comes to Jesus in Behalf of his ServantPaul is Confined in the FortressClaudius Lysius
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.