The twelve apostles went with Jesus to his home, and there abode for certain days.
2 And Jesus told them many things about the inner life that may not now be written in a book.
3 Now, in Capernaum there lived a man of wealth, a Roman captain of a hundred men, who loved the Jews and who had built for them a synagogue.
4 A servant of this man was paralyzed, and he was sick nigh unto death.
5 The captain knew of Jesus and had heard that by the sacred Word he healed the sick, and he had faith in him.
6 He sent a message by the elders of the Jews to Jesus, and he plead for help.
7 And Jesus recognized the captain’s faith and went at once to heal the sick; the captain met him on the way and said to him,
8 Lo, Lord, it is not well that you should come into my house; I am not worthy of the presence of a man of God.
9 I am a man of war; my life is spent with those who ofttimes take the lives of fellow men,