Building from Joel Green’s comments on Luke 7:1-10, I suggest a combination of chiastic and parallel structure in the passage:
A. Centurion’s slave is ill, v 2
B. Centurion sends delegation of Jews, v 3
C. Jews convince Jesus the centurion is “worthy,” vv 4-5
D. Jesus responds by going with them, v 6a
B’. Centurion sends a delegation of “friends,” v 6b
C’. Friends insist that the centurion is “not worthy,” vv 6c-8
D’. Jesus responds by commending the centurion’s faith, v 9
B”. Second delegation returns to house, v 10a
A’. Slave is healthy, v 10b
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