Matthew 8:5-13 - A Centurion's Slave Healed

⁵ When He got back to Capernaum, a Roman military captain came up to Him and kept begging Him, ⁶ "Lord, my servant-boy is at home bedridden with paralysis and suffering terrible tortures!"

⁷ He said to him, "I will come and cure him."

⁸ But the captain answered, "I am not fit for you to come under my roof, but simply speak the word, and my servant-boy will be cured. ⁹ For I, too, am under authority of others, and have soldiers under me, and I order this one to go, and he goes, another to come, and he comes, my slave-boy to do this, and he does it."

¹⁰ When Jesus heard it, He was astounded, and said to His followers, "I solemnly say to you, I have not found, in a single case among the Jews, so great faith as this. ¹¹ I tell you, many will come from the east and from the west and take their seats at the feast with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, 'in the kingdom of heaven, ¹² while the heirs of the kingdom will be turned out into the darkness outside, where they will be weeping and grinding their teeth." ¹³ Then Jesus said to the captain, "Go; it must be done for you as you have believed." And his servant-boy was cured that very hour.

¹ When He had finished all these sayings in the hearing of the people, He went into Capernaum. ² There was a Roman captain who had a slave that was very dear to him, and he was sick and at the point of death, ³ When the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to Him, to ask Him to come and bring his slave safe through the illness. ⁴ So they went to Jesus and continued to urge Him earnestly, saying, "He deserves that you do this for him, ⁵ for he loves our nation, and he is the man who built us our synagogue." ⁶ Then Jesus started to go with them. But when He was not far from the house, the captain sent friends to say to Him, "My Lord, stop troubling yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. ⁷ And so I did not deem myself worthy even to come to you. But simply speak the word, and let my servant-boy be cured. ⁸ For I too am under authority of others, and have soldiers under me, and I order one to go, and he goes, another to come, and he comes, my slave to do this, and he does it."

⁹ When Jesus heard this, He was astounded at him, and turning to the crowd that was following Him He said, "I tell you, I have not found, in a single case among the Jews, so great faith as this!" ¹⁰ Then the messengers returned to the house and found the slave well.