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Luke 7:3

New Living Translation

When the officer heard about Jesus, he sent some respected Jewish elders to ask him to come and heal his slave.

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When Jesus returned to Capernaum, a Roman officer came and pleaded with him,

At that time the highly valued slave of a Roman officer was sick and near death.

So they earnestly begged Jesus to help the man. “If anyone deserves your help, he does,” they said,

Then a man named Jairus, a leader of the local synagogue, came and fell at Jesus’ feet, pleading with him to come home with him.

A man in the crowd called out to him, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, my only child.

When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged Jesus to come to Capernaum to heal his son, who was about to die.

I appeal to you to show kindness to my child, Onesimus. I became his father in the faith while here in prison.