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. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes and that one, 'Come,' and he comes. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. But say the word, and my servant will be healed. That is why I did not even consider myself worthy to come to you. 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. 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. The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. There a centurion's servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people who were listening, he entered Capernaum. But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would." And his servant was healed at that very hour. I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
I say to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it." When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, "Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. "Lord," he said, "my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly." Jesus said to him, "Shall I come and heal him?" The centurion replied, "Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help. The story of the centurion appears both in the Gospel of Matthew and that of Luke:
Impressed, Jesus comments approvingly at the strong religious faith displayed by the soldier (despite not being a Jew) and grants the request, which results in the servant being healed the same day. Jesus offers to go to the centurion's house to perform a healing, but the centurion hesitates and suggests that Jesus' word of authority would be sufficient.
The story is not recounted in the Gospels of either John or Mark.Īccording to these accounts, a Roman centurion asks Jesus for his help because his servant is ill. Healing the centurion's servant is one of the miracles performed by Jesus of Nazareth as related in the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke (both part of the Christian biblical canon). Jesus healing the servant of a Centurion, by the Venetian artist Paolo Veronese, 16th century
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