Text: Mt 8:5-13
Title: Simple Faith
Theme: As Jesus begins to act on the authority that he spoke about in the Sermon on the Mount, he does so among both Jews and Gentiles - and here, Matthew highlights the faith of an outsider as even greater than that of the insiders.  As Jesus unpacks what the Kingdom of God is all about, Matthew is helping the readers see that's not just about the Jewish nation, but it includes the Gentiles too - and might even be better received and understood by the outsider!