"I Am Not Worthy To Have YOU Under My Roof..."

"When JESUS entered Capernaum, an army captain approached HIM, to ask HIS help, 'Sir, my servant lies sick at home.  He is paralyzed and suffers terribly.'  JESUS said to 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 myself, 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 astonished; and said to those who were following HIM, 'I tell you, I have not found such faith in Israel.  I say to you, many will come from east and west and 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 extreme darkness; there, they will wail and grind their teeth.'

Then JESUS said to the captain, 'Go home now.  As you believed, so let it be.'  And that moment, his servant was healed.

JESUS went to Peter's house and found Peter's mother-in-law in bed with fever.  HE took her by the hand and the fever left her; she got up and began to wait on HIM.

Toward evening, they brought to JESUS many people possessed by evil spirits; and with a word, HE drove out the spirits.  HE also healed all who were sick.  In this way, what was said by the prophet Isaiah was fulfilled: HE bore our infirmities and took on HIMSELF our diseases." - Matthew 8:5-17 

(This captain of a foreign army earned the esteem of the Jews.  The man is really troubled: will JESUS consent to go to a pagan's house and "become impure"? [John 18:28].  The captain goes one step further: JESUS does not have to come to his house.  While other sick people seek to be touched by the Master thinking that JESUS possesses some healing power, this man, has instead grasped that JESUS has the very power of GOD and does not need to go to the sick servant: it would not be any more difficult to give a command from a distance to a life that was slipping away.)

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