"For my part," answered Jesus, "I have spoken to all the world openly. I always taught in some Synagogue, or in the Temple Courts, places where all the Jews assemble, and I never spoke of anything in secret.

"No man ever spoke as he speaks!" they answered.

"Sir," the Captain went on, "I am unworthy to receive you under my roof; but only speak, and my manservant will be cured.

That was why I did not even venture to come to you myself; but speak, and let my manservant be cured.

For he whom God sent as his Messenger gives us God's own teaching, for God does not limit the gift of the Spirit.