008:005 After His entry into Capernaum a Captain came to Him,
and entreated Him.
008:006 "Sir," he said, "my servant at home is lying ill with paralysis,
and is suffering great pain."
008:007 "I will come and cure him," said Jesus.
008:008 "Sir," replied the Captain, "I am not a fit person to receive
you under my roof: merely say the word, and my servant
will be cured.
008:009 For I myself am also under authority, and have soldiers under me.
To one I say `Go,' and he goes, to another `Come,' and he comes,
and to my slave `Do this or that,' and he does it."
008:010 Jesus listened to this reply, and was astonished, and said
to the people following Him, "I solemnly tell you that in no
Israelite have I found faith as great as this.
008:011 And I tell you that many will come from the east and from
the west and will recline at table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
in the Kingdom of the Heavens,
008:012 while the natural heirs of the Kingdom will be driven out
into the darkness outside: there will be the weeping aloud
and the gnashing of teeth."
008:013 And Jesus said to the Captain, "Go, and just as you have believed,
so be it for you." And the servant recovered precisely
at that time.
008:014 After this Jesus went to the house of Peter, whose mother-in-law
he found ill in bed with fever.