Healings
8 2A leper came forward. He knelt before him and said: 
—Sir, if you want to, you can make me clean. 
3Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him, and said: 
—I want to, be clean again. 
At that very moment the man was cleansed from his leprosy. 4Then Jesus said to him: 
—See that you do not tell anyone, but go to the priest, have yourself declared clean, and offer the gift that Moses ordered as proof of it.
5When Jesus entered Capernaum, an army captain approached him to ask his help: 
6—Sir, my servant lies sick at home. He is paralyzed and suffers terribly. 
7Jesus said to him: 
—I will come and heal him.
8The captain answered: 
—I am not worthy to have you under my roof. Just give an order and my boy will be healed. 9For 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 to my servant: ‘Do this,’ he does it.
10When 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. 11I 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; 12but the heirs of the kingdom will be thrown out into the darkness; there they will wail and grind their teeth.
13Then Jesus said to the captain: 
—Go home now. As you believed, so let it be. 
And at that moment his servant was healed.

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