When He got back to Capernaum, a Roman military captain came up to Him and kept begging Him,

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.

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.

And the army captain and his men, who were keeping guard over Jesus, who felt the earthquake and saw all that was taking place, were terribly frightened, and said, "Surely this was God's Son."

And when the captain who stood facing him saw that He expired in this way, he said, "This man was surely God's Son!"

Pilate wondered whether He was dead yet, and calling the captain to him asked whether He was already dead;

but when he found out from the captain that He was, he gave him permission to take His body.

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,

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.

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.

When the captain saw what had taken place, he praised God and said, "He certainly was an innocent man!"

But when they had tied him for the flogging, Paul asked the captain who was standing by, "Is it lawful for you to flog a Roman, and one who is uncondemned at that?"

When the captain heard that, he went to the colonel and reported it. Then he asked him, "What are you going to do? This man is a Roman citizen."

He ordered the captain to keep Paul in custody but to let him have freedom and not to prevent his friends from showing him kindness.

But the colonel was influenced by the pilot and the captain of the ship rather than by what Paul said.