I was worthy to go and speak to you. But speak only a word
where you are, and my servant shall be made well. For I also am a man
under rule, and I have soldiers under me; and I say to one 'Go,' and he
goes; and to another, 'Come,' and he comes; and to my servant, 'Do
this,' and he does it. You, too, have power to speak and to be obeyed.
Speak the word, and my servant shall be cured."

When Jesus heard this, he wondered at this man's faith. He turned to the
people following him, and said:

"In truth I say to you, I have not found such faith as this in all
Israel!"

Then he spoke to the friends of the centurion who had brought the word
from him:

"Go and say to this man, 'As you have believed in me, so shall it be
done to you.'"

Then those who had been sent, went again to the centurion's house, and
found that in that very hour his servant had been made perfectly well.

On the day after this, Jesus with his disciples and many people went out
from Capernaum, and turned southward, and came to a village called Nain.
Just as Jesus and his disciples came near to the gate of the city, they
were met by a company who were carrying out a dead man to be buried. He
was a young man, and the only son of his mother, and she was a widow.

When the Lord Jesus saw the mother in her grief, he pitied her, and
said, "Do not weep."

He drew near, and touched the frame on which they were carrying the
body, wrapped round and round with long strips of linen. The bearers
looked with wonder on this stranger, and set down the frame with its
body, and stood still. Standing beside the body, Jesus said:

"Young man, I say to you, Rise up!"

And in a moment the young man sat up and began to speak. Jesus gave him
to his mother, who now saw that her son who had been dead, was alive
again.

And Jesus went through all that part of Galilee, working miracles and
preaching and teaching in all the villages, telling the people
everywhere the good news of the kingdom of God.

The children loved to gather around him, and when his disciples would
have driven them away he said, "Suffer the little children to come unto
me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven."

[Illustration: _The children loved to gather around him_]

One Sabbath day, as Jesus and his disciples were walking in Jerusalem,
they met a blind man begging. This man in all his life had never seen;
for he had been born blind. The disciples said to Jesus as they were
p