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Matthew 8:9
Matthew 8:9 is verse 9 of Matthew chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes; and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it.”
King James Version
For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
World English Bible
For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and tell another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and tell my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
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Matthew 8:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
7 “I will go and heal him,” Jesus replied.
8 The centurion answered, “Lord, I am not worthy to have You come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
9 For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes; and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it.”
10 When Jesus heard this, He marveled and said to those following Him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.
11 I say to you that many will come from the east and the west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
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Cross-references
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Job 38:34Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
Job 38:35Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
Psalms 107:25For He spoke and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea.
Psalms 107:26They mounted up to the heavens, then sunk to the depths; their courage melted in their anguish.
Psalms 107:27They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.
Psalms 107:28Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress.
Psalms 107:29He calmed the storm to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed.
Psalms 119:91Your ordinances stand to this day, for all things are servants to You.
Psalms 148:8lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,
Jeremiah 47:6‘Alas, O sword of the LORD, how long until you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still!’
Jeremiah 47:7How can it rest when the LORD has commanded it? He has appointed it against Ashkelon and the shore of its coastland.”
Ezekiel 14:17Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through it,’ so that I cut off from it both man and beast,
Ezekiel 14:18then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered.
Ezekiel 14:19Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,
Ezekiel 14:20then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.
Ezekiel 14:21For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?
Mark 4:39Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the sea. “Silence!” He commanded. “Be still!” And the wind died down, and it was perfectly calm.
Mark 4:40“Why are you so afraid?” He asked. “Do you still have no faith?”
Mark 4:41Overwhelmed with fear, they asked one another, “Who is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”
Luke 4:35But Jesus rebuked the demon. “Be silent!” He said. “Come out of him!” At this, the demon threw the man down before them all and came out without harming him.
Luke 4:36All the people were overcome with amazement and asked one another, “What is this message? With authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”
Luke 4:39and He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. And she got up at once and began to serve them.
Luke 7:8For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes; and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it.”
Ephesians 6:5Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear and sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.
Ephesians 6:6And do this not only to please them while they are watching, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.
Colossians 3:22Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord.
Titus 2:9Slaves are to submit to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,