the centurion.

100 men. In order to have a proper notion of his office, it may be desirable to explain the construction and array of the Roman legion. Each legion was divided into ten cohorts, each cohort into three maniples, and each maniple into two centuries; so that there were thirty maniples, and sixty centuries in a legion, which, if the century had always, as the word imports, consisted of

100 soldiers, would have formed a combined phalanx of

6,000 men. The number in a legion, however, varied at different periods; in the time of Polybius it was

4,200. The order of battle was that of three lines; the hastati, or spearmen, occupied the front; the principes, the second line; the triarii, (also called pilani, from their weapon, the pilam,) the third. The centurions were appointed by the tribunes, and generally selected from the common soldiers according to their merit; although the office was sometimes obtained for money, or through the favour of the consuls. Their badge was a vine rod, or sapling.

Markus 15:44
Men Pilatus undret sig om han alt skulde være død,

Matteus 8:5-10
Men da han gikk inn i Kapernaum, kom en høvedsmann til ham og bad ham og sa: …

Apostlenes-gjerninge 10:1
Det var en mann i Cesarea ved navn Kornelius, høvedsmann ved den hærdeling som kaltes den italiske;

Apostlenes-gjerninge 27:1-3,43
Da det nu var avgjort at vi skulde seile avsted til Italia, overgav de både Paulus og nogen andre fanger til en høvedsmann ved navn Julius ved den keiserlige hærdeling. …

he said.

Matteus 27:43,54
Han har satt sin lit til Gud; han fri ham nu om han har behag i ham! Han har jo sagt: Jeg er Guds Sønn. …

Lukas 23:47,48
Men da høvedsmannen så det som skjedde, gav han Gud æren og sa: Sannelig, denne mann var rettferdig! …