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“Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God” (Matthew 27:54).
Here we find one more centurion, the one who was responsible for the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus. He had likely seen many men crucified, and was used to seeing men suffer this way. But when the Lord Jesus was on the cross, he saw things he had never seen before. He saw darkness over the whole land for three hours, then an earthquake, and the breaking apart of big rocks. He also heard the Lord Jesus cry out with the loud voice, just before He died. All of this impressed this centurion and others with him so much that he exclaimed, “Truly this was the Son of God.”
The Jews would not admit that Jesus was the Son of God. They said that He was just an ordinary man, although they would admit that He was a prophet. But God had His way of making the truth obvious to these Roman soldiers. It does not say that they really believed on the Lord Jesus that day, but they recognized that God was showing them who the Lord Jesus really was. Only God Himself could make all these things happen.
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