The miracles of Jesus - Classical Christian Literature by Athleo.net

32 THE HEALING OF
I.
The nobleman began -with faith in the reputation
of Jesus as a great worker of miracles.
The fame of Jesus turning water into wine, and of His
healings of the sick, had travelled. The nobleman had
heard of these miracles. His son was sick
;
perhaps
this Jesus would heal him. He would make the
journey to Him and ask.
He was evidently an affectionate
father, an honest, sensible man, howbeit far
from the fine sensibility and lowly thoughtful heart of
the Centurion, whose servant was sick. The Centurion
had faith in Christ. To Christ's word to him, " I will
come and heal him," the Centurion said, " Lord, I am
not worthy that Thou shouldst come under my roof;
but speak the word only and my servant shall be
healed. For I am a man under authority having
others under me : and I say to this man, Go, and he
goeth ; and to another, Come, and he cometh." The
nobleman was not like the Centurion, a man of
thought. It never occurred to him that Jesus was
Master over the spiritual forces of nature, as is an
officer over his soldiers. He did not think at all
about these high matters. As for his house, why
should Jesus not come down to it It was not very
near, but Jesus could not, he thought, work the
miracle without coming. He was as worthy as others
that He should come under his roof. A common,
ordinary soul was this nobleman, kindly, within limits
sensible, but very far from the spiritual quality of
that Centurion.