Luke 7:8

For I also This assigns the reason why he made the request. He was but a subordinate himself, "under authority" of his Chiliarch and other officers, and yet he had soldiers under him as well as a servant, who at a word executed his orders. He inferred that Jesus, who had the power of healing at a distance, had at His command thousands of the "Heavenly Army" (Luke 2:13; Matthew 26:53) who would

"at His bidding speed,

And post o'er land and ocean without rest."