A centurion with good eyesight

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JAN
Mark 15:37-39 "And Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed his last.  And the
curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.  And when the
centurion, who stood facing him, saw that he thus breathed his last, he
said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"" [rsv]

The centurion certainly had an incredible eyesight. Telescopic and xray
vision, hmm, is it a bird, or a plane, or....

I assume inerrantists will insist that all he saw was Jesus breating his
last. I have a hard time understanding how an army officer, who no doubt was
used to people expiring during executions, could find a cry extraordinary
enough to draw such a conclusion.

Matthew obviously saw the problem, and added an earthquake to the special
effects surrounding Jesus' death, so the officer had something to see.

EDWARDS
Let's not forget Matthew's adding the dead being raised, checking out the
holy city, and being seen by many.  Considering the stir this would have
been sure to cause, and the lack of contemporary (or even subsequent)
attestation of this event, I'm surprised more xians aren't actually
embarrassed by this passage.

You know, some xians say the Matthew writer was a tax collector, but I think
he was a geologist.  He seems to have had this thing for earthquakes.

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