"The most amazing thing happened today. That may seem like a strange thing for me, the Son of God, to say. All I've been doing lately is teaching, and performing miracles to glorify my Father and show Him to the world. This amazing happening was not my doing, but someone else's doing."

"I had been out teaching, and had just made my way into Capernaum when I was approached by a centurion a Roman army officer. That in itself was unusual but that's not what I'm talking about. It's what he said to me. He told me his servant was at home paralyzed hurting. I said, 'I will go and heal him.'"

"That's when he said the last thing I expected to hear. He told me not to go to his house. He said he didn't deserve for me to come under his roof. Unbelievable! He said to me, 'Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.' He said, 'I, too, have authority. I say "go" and they go. I say "come" and they come. I say "do this" and it is done.'"

"I was astonished. I marveled. I told everyone around that I had not found anyone in Israel with faith like that. I told him, 'Go! It will be done just as you believed it would.'"

"What faith! I would like to see that kind of faith in my people. Come to think of it, I guess he is one of 'my people.'"