Matthew 8:5-13

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^5-6 When Jesus arrived in Capernaum, a Roman army captain came and pled with him to come to his home and heal his servant boy who was in bed paralyzed and racked with pain.

⁷ “Yes,” Jesus said, “I will come and heal him.”

^8-9 Then the officer said, “Sir, I am not worthy to have you in my home; and it isn’t necessary for you to come.^[a] If you will only stand here and say, ‘Be healed,’ my servant will get well! I know, because I am under the authority of my superior officers and I have authority over my soldiers, and I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my slave boy, ‘Do this or that,’ and he does it. And I know you have authority to tell his sickness to go—and it will go!”

¹⁰ Jesus stood there amazed! Turning to the crowd he said, “I haven’t seen faith like this in all the land of Israel! ¹¹ And I tell you this, that many Gentiles like this Roman officer,^[b] shall come from all over the world and sit down in the Kingdom of Heaven with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ¹² And many an Israelite—those for whom the Kingdom was prepared—shall be cast into outer darkness, into the place of weeping and torment.”

¹³ Then Jesus said to the Roman officer, “Go on home. What you have believed has happened!” And the boy was healed that same hour!