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When Jesus heard it, he marveled and said to those who followed, “Most certainly I tell you, I haven’t found so great a faith, not even in Israel.
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Verse 10. Christ here compares the faith of the centurion with that of the people in general, and not with that of his blessed mother and the apostles, whose faith was beyond a doubt much greater. Menochius.—The Greek says, “neither in Israel.”—Jesus hearing this, marvelled. That is, by his outward carriage, says Saint Augustine seemed to admire: but knowing all things, he could not properly admire any thing.—I have not found so great faith in Israel. This need not be understood of every one, but of those whom he had cured. Witham.
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