7. Jesus responded, "I’ll come and heal him."
8. But the centurion replied, "Lord, I don’t deserve to have you come under my roof. Just say the word and my servant will be healed.
9. I’m a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and the servant does it."
10. When Jesus heard this, he was impressed and said to the people following him, "I say to you with all seriousness that even in Israel I haven’t found faith like this.
11. I say to you that there are many who will come from east and west and sit down to eat with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
12. But the children of the kingdom will be thrown outside into the darkness. People there will be weeping and grinding their teeth."
13. Jesus said to the centurion, "Go; it will be done for you just as you have believed." And his servant was healed that very moment.
14. Jesus went home with Peter and saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever.
15. He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she got up and served them.
16. That evening people brought to Jesus many who were demon-possessed. He threw the spirits out with just a word. He healed everyone who was sick.
17. This happened so that what Isaiah the prophet said would be fulfilled: He is the one who took our illnesses and carried away our diseases.
18. Now when Jesus saw the crowd, he ordered his disciples to go over to the other side of the lake.
19. A legal expert came and said to him, "Teacher, I’ll follow you wherever you go."