the absence of faith where it might have been expected to be found namely, in his own fellow townsmen: “He marvelled because of their unbelief.” In the case of the centurion, who said that he was not worthy that the Lord should come under his roof, but who relied upon the potency of the Master’s word spoken at any distance to chase out the fever, on the ground that a word from himself was sufficient to command a soldier to obedience, and therefore a command from Christ would call diseases to obedience