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Luke 7:3

Weymouth NT

and the Captain, hearing about Jesus, sent to Him some of the Jewish Elders, begging Him to come and restore his servant to health.

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After His entry into Capernaum a Captain came to Him, and entreated Him.

Here the servant of a certain Captain, a man dear to his master, was ill and at the point of death;

And they, when they came to Jesus, earnestly entreated Him, pleading, »He deserves to have this favour granted him,

Just then there came a man named Jair, a Warden of the Synagogue, who threw himself at the feet of Jesus, and entreated Him to come to his house;

and a man from the crowd called out, »Rabbi, I beg you to pity my son, for he is my only child.

Having heard that Jesus had come from Judaea to Galilee, he came to Him and begged Him to go down and cure his son; for he was at the point of death.

I entreat you on behalf of my own child whose father I have become while in my chains–I mean Onesimus.