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Matthew 27:54

The Temple Curtain Torn

The centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus, seeing the earthquake and the things that had happened, were terrified, saying: "Truly this man was God's Son."

The Greek *θεοῦ υἱὸς* ("God's Son") lacks a definite article, which is significant — it reads "a son of God" or "God's Son" rather than "the Son of God." The PT renders it "God's Son" to preserve this anarthrous construction without over-defining it. The verb *ἐφοβήθησαν σφόδρα* means they were frightened to an extreme degree — "terrified" captures this force better than a mild "feared greatly."

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When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified and said, “Truly this was the Son of God.”

And the captain and the men with him who were watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and all that was happening, were dreadfully frightened and said, “He surely must have been a son of God!”

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