5Jesus went to a town called Capernaum. There was a Roman army boss there, the boss of 100 soldiers. He came to Jesus and strongly asked him for help.
6He said, “Sir, my young worker is lying in bed at home. He can’t move, and he is hurting a lot.”
7Jesus said, “I will go with you and make him better.”
8But the army boss said to Jesus, “Sir, I’m not a good enough man for you to go into my house. But you can do it right here. You can tell that sickness to stop, and leave my worker, and then he will get better straight away.
9I know it will happen. You see, I know about bosses. I have a boss over me, and I’m the boss of a lot of soldiers. If I tell a soldier to go somewhere, he goes there. And if I tell one to come to me, he comes to me. And if I tell my worker to do something, he does it. Well, I believe that you are a powerful boss. If you just tell that sickness to go, my worker will get better straight away.”
10Jesus heard what that Roman army boss said, and he was very surprised. He said to the people that were following him, “This man is not one of you Israel mob, but he trusts me more than any of you Israel people.”
11Then Jesus told them about something that will happen one day. He said, “Listen. You know that God picked you Israel mob to be his special people, but one day a lot of other people will come from everywhere in the world, and they will join God’s family in heaven. God will put on a big dinner there for his family, and these other people will sit down and eat it with your grand-fathers of long ago, called Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob.
12But a lot of Israel people will not eat any of it. God will grab them and chuck them out. They will be very upset and angry. They will cry a lot, and they will be so angry that they will bite their teeth together.”
13Then Jesus said to the army boss, “You can go back home now. You are trusting me to make your worker better, so I am doing it.” And right then, at that same time, that army boss’s worker got better.
18At another time Jesus saw a big mob of people coming around him, so he told his followers to take him in a boat to the other side of the lake.
19After they got there a Jewish law man came to Jesus and said, “Teacher, I want to be one of your followers. I will go everywhere with you.”
20Jesus said to him, “Wild dogs have places where they can sleep, and wild birds have nests they can sleep in. But I have no home to lie down and sleep in, even though I’m God’s special man from heaven.”
21There was another man that was already a follower of Jesus. He said to Jesus, “Sir, I will come with you. But my father has died, so let me go home to bury him. After that, I will come with you.”
22Jesus said to him, “No. You come and follow me now. You see, some people are spiritually dead, so they can bury the dead bodies of their own people. But you come and follow me.”
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