When he got back to Capernaum, a Roman captain came up and appealed to him,

But the captain answered, "I am not a suitable person, sir, to have you come under my roof, but simply say the word, and my servant will be cured.

Then Jesus said to the captain, "Go! You shall find it just as you believe!" And the servant was immediately cured.

And the captain and the men with him who were watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and all that was happening, were dreadfully frightened and said, "He surely must have been a son of God!"

And when the captain who stood facing him saw how he expired he said, "This man was certainly a son of God!"

Pilate wondered whether he was dead already, and he sent for the captain and asked whether he was dead yet,

and when he learned from the captain that he was, he gave Joseph permission to take the body.

A Roman captain had a slave whom he thought a great deal of, and the slave 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 save his slave's life.

So Jesus went with them. But when he was not far from the house, the captain sent some friends to him, to say to him, "Master, do not take any more trouble, for I am not a suitable person to have you under my roof.

When the captain saw what had happened he praised God, and said, "This man was really innocent!"

There was at Caesarea a man named Cornelius, a captain in what was known as the Italian regiment.

They answered, "Cornelius, who is a captain, and an upright and God-fearing man, and who has a good reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house, and to listen to what you have to say."

But the officer was more influenced by the pilot and the captain than by what Paul had to say,