“Now, according to your word, Sovereign Lord, permit your servant to depart in peace.

So when those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the slave well.

So he sent another slave. They beat this one too, treated him outrageously, and sent him away empty-handed.

When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave.

At the time for the banquet he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’

So the master said to his slave, ‘Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled.

“Would any one of you say to your slave who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, ‘Come at once and sit down for a meal’?

When harvest time came, he sent a slave to the tenants so that they would give him his portion of the crop. However, the tenants beat his slave and sent him away empty-handed.

Then one of them struck the high priest’s slave, cutting off his right ear.