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Matthew 8:5–13

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A Centurion’s Slave Healed

5Now when* he entered Capernaum, a centurion approached him, appealing to him 6and saying, “Lord, my slavea is lying paralyzed in myb house, terribly tormented!” 7And he said to him, “I will come and* heal him.” 8And the centurion answered and* said, “Lord, I am not worthy that you should come in under my roof. But only say the word and my slave will be healed. 9For I also am a man under authority who has soldiers under me, and I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another one, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does itc.”

10Now when* Jesus heard this,* he was astonished, and said to those who were following him,* “Truly I say to you, I have found such great faith with no one in Israel. 11But I say to you that many will come from east and west and be seated at the banquetd with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. 12But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!” 13And Jesus said to the centurion, “Go, as you have believed it will be done for you.” And the slavee was healed at that hour.

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Footnotes

  1. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“entered”)
  2. aTraditionally “servant”; the Greek term here is one often used of a slave who was regarded with some degree of affection, possibly a personal servant (the parallel passage in Luke 7:7 uses the more common term for slave)
  3. bLiterally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  4. *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“come”) has been translated as a finite verb
  5. *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb
  6. cHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation (see the parallel in Luke 7:8).
  7. *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
  8. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  9. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  10. dLiterally “recline at table”
  11. eMany later manuscripts have “his slave”