Matthew 8:5-10

Goodspeed(i) 5 When he got back to Capernaum, a Roman captain came up and appealed to him, 6 saying, "My servant, sir, is lying sick with paralysis at my house, in great distress." 7 He said to him, "I will come and cure him." 8 But the captain answered, "I am not a suitable person, sir, to have you come under my roof, but simply say the word, and my servant will be cured. 9 For I am myself under the orders of others and I have soldiers under me, and I tell one to go, and he goes, and another to come, and he comes, and my slave to do something, and he does it." 10 When Jesus heard this he was astonished, and said to his followers, "I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such faith as this.