Matthew 8.5-13 {7.28} | Luke 7.1-10 {13.28-29} | John 4.46-54 |
{7.28 And it happened that when Jesus finished these words the crowds were amazed at his teaching.} | 7.1 When he fulfilled all these sayings in the ears of the people, | - |
8.5 But, when he went into Capernaum, a centurion came toward him, calling out to him 6 and saying: Lord, my child is cast down paralyzed in the house, terribly tormented. 7 And he says to him: I will go and heal him. 8 And the centurion said: Lord, I am not fit for you to come under my roof. But only say the word, and my child shall be cured. 9 For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me, and I say to this one: Journey, and he journeys, and to another: Come, and he comes, and to my slave: Do this, and he does it. 10 And when Jesus heard he wondered, and he said to the ones following him: Amen, I say to you, with no one in Israel did I find such faith. | he went into Capernaum. 2 But the slave of a certain centurion, one who was much honored by him, was doing badly and was about to expire. 3 But having heard concerning Jesus he sent elders of the Jews toward him, asking him that he might come and save his slave. 4 And they arrived toward Jesus and called on him earnestly, saying: He is a worthy one to whom to grant this thing, 5 for he loves our nation, and he himself built the synagogue for us. 6 But Jesus journeyed with them. But, when he was not far off from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to him: Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not fit for you to come under my roof. 7 It was for this reason that I did not count myself worthy to come toward you, but say the word, and let my child be cured. 8 For I also am a man ordered under authority, having soldiers under me, and I say to this one: Journey, and he journeys, and to another: Come, and he comes, and to my slave: Do this, and he does it. 9 And when Jesus heard these things he wondered at him, and he turned and said to the crowd following him: I say to you, not even in Israel did I find such faith. | 4.46 He came again therefore into Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum. 47 This man, having heard that Jesus had proceeded out of Judea into Galilee, went away toward him and asked that he should go down and cure his son, for he was about to die. 48 Jesus therefore said toward him: Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not have faith. |
11 But I say to you that many will come from east and west and will recline with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens. 12 But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth there. | {13.28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth there, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves cast out. 13.29 And they will come from east and west and from north and south and will recline in the kingdom of God.} | - |
13 And Jesus said to the centurion: Get on; be it done for you as you had faith. And his child was healed in that very hour. | 7.10 And, when those who had been sent returned into the house, they found the slave made well. | 49 The royal official says toward him: Lord, go down before my child dies. 50 Jesus says to him: Journey on; your son lives. The man put faith in the word which Jesus said to him and journeyed on. 51 And when he was already going down his slaves met him, saying that his child was alive. 52 He inquired of them therefore the hour in which he began to do better. They said therefore to him: Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever departed him. 53 The father therefore knew that it was in that very hour in which Jesus had said to him: Your son lives; and he himself had faith, as well as his whole house. 54 And this was again the second sign that Jesus did when he had come out of Judea into Galilee. |
Another healing at a distance occurs in Matthew 15.21-28 = Mark 7.24-30 (the healing of the daughter of a Canaanite/Syrophoenician woman).
But the gospels are not alone in this motif. There is a story about Hanina ben Dosa from the Talmud, Berakoth 34b:
What other examples are there (from Christian, Jewish, Greco-Roman, or other ancient literature) of healings at a distance?