⁹ For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant,^[a] ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”

⁸ When the crowds saw it, ^(A)they were afraid, and ^(B)they glorified God, who had ^(C)given such authority to men.