Then a host of heaven's army suddenly appeared beside the angel extolling God and saying,

or where is the king, that will march to give battle to another king, without setting himself first to deliberate, whether he is strong enough with ten thousand to withstand an army of twenty thousand?

Now when you shall see Jerusalem invested by an army, then be assured that the desolation of it is nigh.

And those who served in the army were also asking him, saying, "What should we also do?" And he said to them, "Extort from no one, and do not blackmail [anyone], and be content with your pay."

When the army-captain saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying, "This man was really innocent."

A Captain in the Roman army had a slave whom he valued, and who was seriously ill--almost at the point of death.