When the centurion saw what had happened, he gave glory to God, saying, “Surely this was a righteous man.”
In these verses we have three things: - I. Christ's dying magnified by the prodigies that attended it: only two are here mentioned, which we had an account of before. 1. The darkening of the sun at noon-day. It was now about the sixth hour, that is, according to our computation, twelve o'clock at noon; and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
Commenting on Luke 23:44-49
And he took it down,.... From the cross, with the help of others, having obtained leave of Pilate so to do; and wrapped it in linen; as was the custom of the Jews in burying their dead; See Gill on Mat 27:59. and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone; cut out of a rock; See Gill on Mat 27:60.
Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man. (15) Christ, as often as it pleases him, causes his very enemies to give honourable witness that he is right.