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The Centurion At Capernaum
6. When Jmmanuel went to Capernaum, a centurion walked up to him with a request, saying,
7. "Master, my servant lies at home incapacitated with gout and is in great distress.
8. "Master, I have heard your new teachings and I know the truth of your wisdom, which states that the human spirit can perform miracles through knowledge of the truth."
9. Jmmanuel spoke to him, "l will come and make him well.
10. The centurion replied, "Master, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof, but only say the word and my servant will be well.
11. "I, too, am a man subject to authority, and I also have soldiers under me. If I say to one, 'Go!' he goes, and to another, 'Come here!' he comes, and to my servant, 'Do this!' he does it."
12. When Jmmanuel heard this, he marvelled and spoke to those who followed him, "Truly, I say to you, such trust I have found in no one in Israel.
13. "But I say to you, many will come from the east and the west, from the south and the north, and they will understand my teachings and recognize their wisdom in knowledge.
14. "However, the children of Israel will be expelled into darkness; there will be wailing and the chattering of teeth.
15. "The false teachings of Israel will bring bloodshed over the millennia, because the power-hungry selfishness and high-handedness of Israel will bring death and destruction over the land and all the world.