And he said to him, “I will come and[a] heal him.” And the centurion answered and[b] said, “Lord, I am not worthy that you should come in under my roof. But only say the word and my slave will be healed. For I also am a man under authority who has soldiers under me, and I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another one, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it[c].”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 8:7 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“come”) has been translated as a finite verb
  2. Matthew 8:8 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb
  3. Matthew 8:9 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation (see the parallel in Luke 7:8).