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."
20. Jesus replied, "Foxes have dens, and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Human One has no place to lay his head."
21. Another man, one of his disciples, said to him, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father."
22. But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead."
23. When Jesus got into a boat, his disciples followed him.
24. A huge storm arose on the lake so that waves were sloshing over the boat. But Jesus was asleep.
25. They came and woke him, saying, "Lord, rescue us! We’re going to drown!"
26. He said to them, "Why are you afraid, you people of weak faith?" Then he got up and gave orders to the winds and the lake, and there was a great calm.
27. The people were amazed and said, "What kind of person is this? Even the winds and the lake obey him!"
28. When Jesus arrived on the other side of the lake in the country of the Gadarenes, two men who were demon-possessed came from among the tombs to meet him. They were so violent that nobody could travel on that road.
29. They cried out, "What are you going to do with us, Son of God? Have you come to torture us before the time of judgment?"