Matthew 8:5
Douay-Rheims
And when he had entered into Capharnaum, there came to him a centurion, beseeching him,
John Chrysostom (attributed)
Had not He said, I will come and heal him, the other would never have answered, I am not worthy. It was because it was a servant for whom he made petition, that Christ promised to go, in order to teach us not to have respect to the great, and overlook the little, but to honour poor and rich alike.
Source details
as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 8:5-9
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.