say in a word The centurion had clearly heard how Jesus, by His mere fiat,had healed the son of the -courtier" at Capernaum (John 4:46-54). The attempt to make these two miracles identical is to the last degree arbitrary and untenable.

my servant The centurion here uses the more tender word, pais, -son.

shall be healed Perhaps the better reading is let him be healed.The faith of the centurion was "an invisible highway for the saving eagles of the great Imperator." Lange.

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