Healing the Centurion's servant is one of the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.

According to the Gospels, a Roman Centurion asked Jesus for help because his boy servant was ill. Jesus offered to go to the Centurion's house to perform the healing, but the Centurion

Centurion

A centurion was a professional officer of the Roman army .Centurion may also refer to:-Military:* Centurion tank, British battle tank* HMS Centurion, name of several ships and a shore base of the British Royal Navy...

 suggested that Jesus perform the healing at a distance. When Jesus heard this, he said:

Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. 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. But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would.

And the boy was healed at that very hour.

Author John Clowes commented that the use of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob refers to the degree of blessedness by which people are admitted to the feast, in that Abraham signifies the celestial degree, Isaac the spiritual and Jacob the natural degree.

The Gospel of John

Gospel of John

The Gospel According to John , commonly referred to as the Gospel of John or simply John, and often referred to in New Testament scholarship as the Fourth Gospel, is an account of the public ministry of Jesus...

 narrates a similar account of Jesus healing the son of a royal official

Healing the royal official's son

Healing the royal official's son is one of the miracles of Jesus that appear in the Gospel of John. This episode takes place at Capernaum in and Jesus heals the son of a royal official at a distance.In the Gospel of John :...

 at Capernaum was cured at a distance in . Some, such as in Fred Craddock

Fred Craddock

Fred Craddock is the Bandy Distinguished Professor of Preaching and New Testament, Emeritus, in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He is an ordained minister of the Christian Church from rural Tennessee. He is the director of the Craddock Center, a non-profit service group which...

 in his commentary on Luke, treats them as the same miracle. However, in his analysis of Matthew, R. T. France

R. T. France

Richard Thomas France is a New Testament scholar and Anglican cleric. He was Principal of Wycliffe Hall Oxford from 1989 to 1995. He has also worked for the London School of Theology.-Biography:...

 presents linguistic arguments against the equivalence of pais and son and considers these two separate miracles. Merrill C. Tenney

Merrill C. Tenney

Merrill Chapin Tenney was an American professor of Old Testament and Greek and author of several books. He was the general editor of the Zondervan Pictorial Bible Dictionary, and served on the original translation team for the New American Standard Bible-Background and education:Tenney was born in...

 in his commentary on John and Orville Daniel in his Gospel harmony

Gospel harmony

A Gospel harmony is an attempt to merge or harmonize the canonical gospels of the Four Evangelists into a single gospel account, the earliest known example being the Diatesseron by Tatian in the 2nd century. A gospel harmony may also establish a chronology for the events of the life of Jesus...

also consider them two different incidents.