the end of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus Christ back to his home in Capernaum, where a great multitude followed him. There he met some elders sent by a Roman Centurion, who was asked to go home to heal a servant who was sick.
A centurion was a Roman captain who was in charge of one hundred soldiers, as had many servants and those under their command. Normally
attended Jesus to the Gentiles, not having been sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel, but in this case Village elders served as sponsors of the centurion and made him known to the Lord of this captain to help it deserved for services rendered the Jews and the love he felt for the nation .
When Christ is addressed to the captain's house, this change of opinion to see the Lord near his home and send some friends to deliver her message:'' Lord do not mind, because I do not deserve you come to my house, which is why I do not even dare to go in person to accuse. Only of the order, to heal my servant. Because I'm under orders higher, while I have soldiers under me. When I ask one of them comes, comes, and I say to my servant, 'Do something, do it.''
These words imply a recognition of something Christ wanted people to understand: if you have faith God can work wonders, EVEN WITHOUT YOUR PHYSICAL PRESENCE IN PLACE.
Jesus'm amazed at his conduct and acknowledged that neither Israel had found such faith. then makes a remark of people who come from the east and west and will part with the great fathers of the Jewish nation in the Kingdom of God because their faith will make worthy of this post.
Finally Jesus spoke words of blessing to the slave using the messengers of the centurion. Upon arriving home the boy had already healed at the same time that Jesus uttered the blessing ''Let there be as you believed''
would not the only time that people of great faith, managed they expected the Lord (Mark 5:25-34), even people of other nationalities (Marcos7 :24-30). Leaving clear that what Jesus wanted are people who believe in him.
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