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Matthew 8:5

Good News Translation (US Version)

When Jesus entered Capernaum, a Roman officer met him and begged for help:

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When the army officer and the soldiers with him who were watching Jesus saw the earthquake and everything else that happened, they were terrified and said, “He really was the Son of God!”

But the army officer wanted to save Paul, so he stopped them from doing this. Instead, he ordered everyone who could swim to jump overboard first and swim ashore;

But Paul said to the army officer and soldiers, “If the sailors don't stay on board, you have no hope of being saved.”

Then Paul called one of the officers and said to him, “Take this young man to the commander; he has something to tell him.”

He did not stay in Nazareth, but went to live in Capernaum, a town by Lake Galilee, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali.

A soft wind from the south began to blow, and the men thought that they could carry out their plan, so they pulled up the anchor and sailed as close as possible along the coast of Crete.

Then the commander called two of his officers and said, “Get two hundred soldiers ready to go to Caesarea, together with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, and be ready to leave by nine o'clock tonight.

But when they had tied him up to be whipped, Paul said to the officer standing there, “Is it lawful for you to whip a Roman citizen who hasn't even been tried for any crime?”

The army officer who was standing there in front of the cross saw how Jesus had died. “This man was really the Son of God!” he said.

A few days later Jesus went back to Capernaum, and the news spread that he was at home.

Jesus got into the boat and went back across the lake to his own town,

And as for you, Capernaum! Did you want to lift yourself up to heaven? You will be thrown down to hell! If the miracles which were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would still be in existence today!

Joppa was not very far from Lydda, and when the believers in Joppa heard that Peter was in Lydda, they sent two men to him with the message, “Please hurry and come to us.”




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