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Heals a Centurion’s Servant

When Jesus arrived in Capernaum, an army captain came to him seeking his help:

Sir, my servant is sick at home. He is paralyzed and suffering terribly.

Jesus told him: “I will come and heal him.”

The captain answered:

“I am not worthy to have you under my roof. Just give an order, and my boy will be healed.

For I, a junior officer, give orders to my soldiers. And if I say to one, ‘Go!’ he goes; and if I say to another, ‘Come!’ he comes; and if I say to my servant, ‘Do this!’ he does it.”

When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him:

“I tell you; I have not found such faith in Israel.

I tell you; many will come from the east and the west and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob at the feast in the kingdom of heaven;

but the heirs of the kingdom will be thrown out into utter darkness, where they will wail and grind their teeth.”

Then Jesus said to the captain:

“Go home now. As you believed, so let it be.”

And at that moment, his servant was healed.

Heals and Exorcises Around the House

Jesus went to Peter’s house and found his mother-in-law in bed with a fever.

He touched her hand, and the fever left her; she got up and waited on him.

Later in the evening, they brought many people possessed by evil spirits to Jesus, and with a word, he cast out the spirits. He also healed all who were sick.

In this way, what the prophet Isaiah said was fulfilled:

He bore our infirmities

and took on himself our diseases.