Luke 7:6-19

⁶So Jesus went with them. When he was near the officer's house, the officer decided that it was not necessary for Jesus to come to his house. So he summoned some friends. He told them to go to Jesus and tell him this: “Lord/Sir, do not bother to come. Because I am a non-Jew, I am not worthy for you (sg), a Jew, to come into my house MTY and associate with me.

⁷I did not feel worthy to come to you, either. But please command that my servant be healed, and he will become well!

⁸I believe this because, as for me, there are people who have authority over me and I obey them. I also have soldiers under my authority. When I say to one of them, ‘Go!’ he goes. When I say to another ‘Come!’ he comes. When I say to my slave, ‘Do this!’ he does it. And I believe that you speak with a similar kind of authority.”

⁹When the officer's friends arrived and told that to Jesus, he marveled at what the officer had said. Then he turned and said to the crowd that was going with him, “I tell you, I have never before found anyone who trusted in me like this non-Jewish man does. No one from Israel, where I would expect people to believe in me, has trusted in me like he has!”

¹⁰When those men returned to the officer's house, they found that the slave was well.

¹¹Soon after that, Jesus went to a town called Nain. His disciples and a large crowd of other people went with him.

¹²As they approached the town gate, the corpse of a young man who had just died was being carried out on a stretcher { people were carrying out on a stretcher the corpse of a young man who had just died}. His mother was a widow, and he was her only son. A large group of people from the town were accompanying them.

¹³When the Lord saw her, he pitied her. He said to her, “Do not cry!”

¹⁴Then, ignoring the Jewish laws about not coming near a corpse, he came close and touched the stretcher on which the body was lying. So the men carrying it stood still. He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!”

¹⁵The man sat up and began to talk! Jesus returned him to his mother to care for her.

¹⁶Then everyone there was amazed/awestruck. They praised God, saying, “A great prophet has come among us!” They also said, “God has come to help his people!”

¹⁷Then they reported what Jesus had done throughout all of Judea district and other nearby areas.

¹⁸The disciples of John the Baptizer went to the prison where John was and told him about those things.

¹⁹So one day John summoned two of his disciples and told them to go to the Lord and ask him: “Are you the Messiah who the prophets prophesied would come, or is it someone else that we should expect to come?”