The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
It is curious that when Martha, who was very dear to Jesus, said, “I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give it to you,” far from being praised, she was rebuked and corrected by the Lord as not having spoken quite fittingly. … For Jesus was teaching her that he himself is the fountain of all good things, the resurrection and the life, as if to say, “I do not wait to receive active power but have it already in myself.” The Gospel of Matthew, Homily
