Bible Verses About Centurion

As Yeshua entered K'far-Nachum, a Roman army officer came up and pleaded for help.

"Sir, my orderly is lying at home paralyzed and suffering terribly!"

Yeshua said, "I will go and heal him."

But the officer answered, "Sir, I am unfit to have you come into my home. Rather, if you will only give the command, my orderly will recover.

For I too am a man under authority. I have soldiers under me, and I say to this one, `Go!' and he goes; to another, `Come!' and he comes; to my slave, `Do this!' and he does it."

On hearing this Yeshua was amazed and said to the people following him, "Yes! I tell you, I have not found anyone in Isra'el with such trust!

Moreover, I tell you that many will come from the east and from the west to take their places at the feast in the Kingdom of Heaven with Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya`akov.

But those born for the Kingdom will be thrown outside in the dark, where people will wail and grind their teeth!"

Then Yeshua said to the officer, "Go; let it be for you as you have trusted." And his orderly was healed at that very moment.

Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead, so he summoned the officer and asked him if he had been dead awhile.

After he had gotten confirmation from the officer that Yeshua was dead, he granted Yosef the corpse.

When Yeshua had finished speaking to the people, he went back to K'far-Nachum.

A Roman army officer there had a servant he regarded highly, who was sick to the point of death.

Hearing about Yeshua, the officer sent some Jewish elders to him with the request that he come and heal his servant.

They came to Yeshua and pleaded earnestly with him, "He really deserves to have you do this,

for he loves our people -- in fact, he built the synagogue for us!"

So Yeshua went with them. He had not gone far from the house, when the officer sent friends who said to him, "Sir, don't trouble yourself. I'm not worthy to have you come under my roof --

this is why I didn't presume to approach you myself. Instead, just give a command and let my servant recover.

For I too am a man set under authority. I have soldiers under me; and I say to this one, `Go!' and he goes; and to another, `Come!' and he comes; and to my slave, `Do this!' and he does it."

Yeshua was astonished at him when he heard this; and he turned and said to the crowd following him, "I tell you, not even in Isra'el have I found such trust!"

When the messengers got back to the officer's house, they found the servant in good health.

But as they were stretching him out with thongs to be flogged, Sha’ul said to the captain standing by, “Is it legal for you to whip a man who is a Roman citizen and hasn’t even had a trial?”

When the captain heard that, he went and reported it to the commander, “Do you realize what you’re doing? This man is a Roman citizen!”