"...no one in Israel have I found faith as great as this." Matthew 8:5-11

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"...no one in Israel have I found faith as great as this."

Matthew  8:5-11

⁵ When he went into Capernaum a centurion came up and pleaded with him.

⁶ 'Sir,' he said, 'my servant is lying at home paralysed and in great pain.'

⁷ Jesus said to him, 'I will come myself and cure him.'

⁸ The centurion replied, 'Sir, I am not worthy to have you under my roof; just give the word and my servant will be cured.

⁹ For I am under authority myself and have soldiers under me; and I say to one man, "Go," and he goes; to another, "Come here," and he comes; to my servant, "Do this," and he does it.'

¹⁰ When Jesus heard this he was astonished and said to those following him, 'In truth I tell you, in no one in Israel have I found faith as great as this.

¹¹ And I tell you that many will come from east and west and sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob at the feast in the kingdom of Heaven;