Healing the centurion's servant

Jesus healing the servant of a Centurion, by the Venetian artist Paolo Veronese, 16th century

Healing the centurion's servant is one of the miracles performed by Jesus of Nazareth as related in the Gospel of Matthew[1] and the Gospel of Luke[2] (both part of the Christian biblical canon). The story is not recounted in the Gospels of either John or Mark.

According to these accounts, a Roman centurion asks Jesus for his help because his servant is ill. Jesus offers to go to the centurion's house to perform a healing, but the centurion hesitates and suggests that Jesus' word of authority would be sufficient. Impressed, Jesus comments approvingly at the strong religious faith displayed by the soldier (despite not being a Jew) and grants the request, which results in the servant being healed the same day.