Healing a centurion's servant
(Matthew 8:5-13, Luke 7:1-10)
During one of Jesus' visits to the town of Capernaum, a centurion, through intermediaries, asked Jesus to heal the centurion's servant who was ill and near death. Jesus agreed to go to centurion's house and heal the centurion's servant. But the centurion, through his friends, told Jesus that the centurion felt unworthy to have Jesus come into his home. Jesus praised the centurion for his faith and the servant was healed.
As explained in the Gospel of Luke:During one of Jesus' visits to the town of Capernaum, a centurion, through intermediaries, asked Jesus to heal the centurion's servant who was ill and near death. Jesus agreed to go to centurion's house and heal the centurion's servant. But the centurion, through his friends, told Jesus that the centurion felt unworthy to have Jesus come into his home. Jesus praised the centurion for his faith and the servant was healed.
When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people
who were listening, he entered Capernaum. There a centurion's servant,
whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. The centurion
heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to
come and heal his servant. When they came to Jesus, they pleaded
earnestly with him, "This man deserves to have you do this, because he
loves our nation and has built our synagogue." So Jesus went with them.
He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to say to
him: "Lord, don't trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have you
come under my roof. That is why I did not even consider myself worthy to
come to you. But say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I
myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this
one, 'Go,' and he goes; and that one, 'Come,' and he comes. I say to my
servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following him, he said, "I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel." Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well.
When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following him, he said, "I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel." Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well.