so, when the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and make his servant well.
When he entered Capharnahum an army-captain came up to him and appealed to him,
I appeal to you on behalf of my spiritual son born while I was in prison. It is Onesimus!
when he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judaea, he went to him and begged him to come down and cure his son, who was at the point of death.
"Teacher," shouted a man from the crowd, "look at my son, I beg of you, for he is my only boy,
A man called Jairus came, who was a president of the synagogue, and falling at the feet of Jesus entreated him to come to his house,
Now there was an army-captain who had a servant ill whom he valued very highly. This man was at the point of death;
When they reached Jesus they asked him earnestly to do this. "He deserves to have this favour from you," they said,