1 Now the whole world had one language
and a common speech.
2 As people moved
eastward, they found
a plain in Shinar and
settled there.
3 They said to each other, “Come,
let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone,
and tar for mortar.
4 Then they said,
“Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens,
so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over
the face of the whole earth.”
5 But the LORD came down to see the
city and the tower the people were building.
6 The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same
language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be
impossible for them.
7 Come, let us go
down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
8 So the LORD scattered them from
there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 That is why it was called Babel—because
there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD
scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Matthew 8:5-13
5 When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a
centurion came to him, asking for help.
6 “Lord,” he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed,
suffering terribly.”
7 Jesus said to him, “Shall I come and heal him?”
8 The centurion replied, “Lord, I
do not deserve 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 this one, ‘Go,’ and he
goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he
does it.”
10 When Jesus heard this, he was
amazed 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, and will take their places at the feast
with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
12 But the subjects of the
kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth.”
13 Then Jesus said to the
centurion, “Go! Let it be done just as you believed it
would.” And his servant was healed at that moment.
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