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 my servant  shall  be  healed. For I also  am  a man  subject  to authority,  having  under  me  soldiers,  and  I say  to  this: Go,  and he goeth,  and  to  another: Come,  and  he  cometh,  and  to  my  servant: Do  this,  and  he  doeth  it.”  Hearing  this,  Jesus  wondered much, and  turning  to  the  multitude  that  followed  Him,  said: “Amen, I say  to  you,  I have  not  found  so  great  faith  in  Israel. And I say  unto  you  that  many  shall  come  from  the  East  and  the West, and  shall  sit  down with  Abraham,  Isaac  and  Jacob  in  the kingdom of  heaven. But the  children  of  the  kingdom  shall  be cast  out  into  exterior  darkness ;  there  shall  be  weeping  and gnashing of  teeth.”  Then  He  said  to  the  centurion:  “Go,  and as thou  hast  believed,  so  be  it  done  to  thee.”  And  the  servant was healed  at  the  same  hour.

The Divinity  of  our  Lord  was  proved  by  two  astounding  miracles. The leper  believed  in  our  Lord’s  Divinity. He did  not  say  to  Him: “Pray to  God  that  I may  be  clean”,  but  he  entreated  Him  as  God, and, full  of  faith,  said:  “If  Thou  wilt,  Thou  canst  make  me  clean”,  i.  e. it  only  depends  on  Thy  will  to  cure  me,  for  Thou  canst  do  it,  if  Thou wilt. And Jesus  confirmed  his  faith  by  saying:  “I  will:  be  thou  clean.” Our Lord  said:  “I  will!”  to  show  that  He  could  make  the  sick  well by His  mere  will,  or,  in  other  words,  that  He  was  Omnipotent. He manifested the  same  Omnipotence  by  curing  the  centurion’s  servant without even  seeing  him.

Our Lord's  prophecy  about  the  extension  of  His  Church  is  another proof of  His  Divinity. The heathen  centurion  believed,  whereas  the