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 touched him,  saying:  “I  will;  be  thou  made  clean."  And  forthwith his  leprosy  was  cleansed.  Then  Jesus  spoke  to  him:  “See thou  tell  no  man ;  but  go,  show  thyself  to  the  priest,  and  offer the  gift  which  Moses  commanded  as  a testimony  to  them.”

After this,  Jesus  returned  to  Caphamaum. In this  city  there lived a centurion,  a Roman,  who  was  friendly  to  the  Jews,  and had built  them  a synagogue. Now the  servant  of  this  man  was sick and  grievously  tormented. The centurion,  therefore,  knowing that Jesus  had  come  back  to  Capharnaum,  besought  some  of  the Jewish elders  to  go  and  ask  our  Lord  to  come  and  cure  his servant.

Jesus went  with  them. But when  the  centurion  saw  our  Lord coming with  the  ancients,  he  said:  “Lord,  I am  not  worthy  that thou shouldst  enter  under  my  roof;  but  only  say  the  word,  and