Hi everyone. Welcome back to Logical Bible Study. As always, it's our goal to help you understand the literal sense of the gospel reading from today's Mass. So we're doing a verse-by-verse dive

into the text. Today's reading is from Matthew chapter 8 verses 5 to 11. So we'll read out the

text and then we'll have a go at breaking it down verse by verse. When Jesus went into Copernum,

a centurion came up and pleaded with him.

Sir, he said, my servant is lying at home paralyzed and in great pain.

I will come myself and cure him, said Jesus.

The centurion replied, sir, I am not worthy to have you under my roof.

Just give the word and my servant will be cured.

For I am under authority myself and have soldiers under me.

And I say to one man, go and he goes.

To another, come here.

And he comes.

To my servant do this and he does it.

When Jesus heard this, he was astonished and said to those following him,

I tell you solemnly, nowhere in Israel have I found faith like this.

And I tell you that many will come from east and west to take their places with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob at the

feast in the kingdom of heaven.

So there's a bit going on here.

What's the context?

Jesus has just come down from the sermon on the mount and he's healed the leper at the start

of chapter 8.

Now that healing of the leper was the first of 10 healings in chapters

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