Luke 7:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave.

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When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, appealing to him

I am appealing to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment.

When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

Just then a man from the crowd shouted, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son; he is my only child.

Just then there came a man named Jairus, a leader of the synagogue. He fell at Jesus’s feet and began pleading with him to come to his house,

A centurion there had a slave whom he valued highly and who was ill and close to death.

When they came to Jesus, they appealed to him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy to have you do this for him,