7 After Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) had finished sharing those messages with the people, he entered Kafarnaoum (Capernaum) town. 2 A Roman army commander there had a slave that he valued, but who was sick and expected to die. 3 He had heard about Yeshua, so he asked the local Jewish elders to talk to Yeshua on his behalf and to ask him to come to heal his slave. 4 When the elders got to Yeshua, they earnestly implored him saying, “The man you’d be helping is worth it 5 because he loves us Yehudim (Jews) and he built the local Jewish meeting hall for us.”

6 So Yeshua went with them but as they got closer to the house, the commander had sent some friends to tell him, “Master, don’t trouble yourself because I’m not worthy enough to have you enter my home 7 and that’s why I never came to you personally. However, just issue a command and then my boy will be healed 8 because I’m appointed under authority and have other soldiers under me. When I tell one of them to go, he goes, and when I tell one to come, he comes, and when I tell my slave to do something, he does it.”

9 When he heard that, Yeshua was amazed and turned to face the crowd that was following him and said, “I can tell you that never before in all of Yisrael (Israel) have I encountered so much faith!”

10 By the time that the commander’s friends had gotten back to the house, they found that the slave was already well again.

5 When Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) arrived in Kafarnaoum (Capernaum), a Roman army commander approached him and pleaded with him, 6 saying, “Master, I have a slave who’s paralysed and has to stay in bed because he’s being badly tormented.”

7 “I’ll come and heal him,” Yeshua answered.

8 “But master,” the commander replied, “I’m not worthy of you coming to my house, but just give the command and my slave will be healed, 9 because I’m also a man given a position under authority, with soldiers under me, and I tell this one, ‘Come here,’ and he comes, and tell my slave, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.

10 Yeshua was amazed when he heard that, and said to his followers around him, “I can assure you that I haven’t discovered faith like that from any Israeli. 11 I’m telling you that many people from all over the world will come and join Avraham and Yitshak (Isaac) and Ya’akov (Jacob) at the table in the heavenly kingdom,[ref] 12 but the ones who thought they were the true children will be thrown out into the distant darkness where there’ll be crying and regrets.[ref] 13 Then he said to the commander, “Go, then, and it’ll happen according to your faith,” and his slave was healed that very moment.