Here's something interesting: The man who had the most faith in Jesus never met Him. Jesus was amazed by the centurion faith and he never even met Jesus. I guess I have to qualify that as during Jesus' ministry period and pre-resurrection. The story takes place in Luke 7:1-10. I find the centurion to be an interesting character, very different from anyone else in the Gospels. First, he AMAZED JESUS with his faith! What kind of a man would it take to amaze the Son of God? Jesus said that he hadn't found anyone with greater faith. But it gets better. Everything that the centurion knew about Jesus, and everything that Jesus knew about the centurion was through messengers. They never met face to face (at least not that is recorded). The next interesting thing is who the messengers were. The Jewish elders were willing to go to Jesus on behalf of a Roman (think occupying invader). The next amazing thing was that they said that he deserved to have his request fulfilled. They thought he was a good enough man that something good ought to be done for him. Then it turns out that the reason why he was so deserving was that he loved Israel and built a synagogue for the people. How often do Roman soldiers love their occupied (and rebellious) lands? But this man loved them and gave his own money to build a place for them to worship. Then his request was not for himself, but for a servant. He was a centurion and he had lots of servants, but he cherished this one and valued him enough to seek Jesus' help. My guess is that he stayed at his servant's side and had already spent a great deal of money on doctors. He humbled himself to save the life of his friend, his servant. He trusts so much in Jesus' power that he believes Jesus can heal from a distance. He is humble enough that he knows he does not deserve to be in Jesus' presence. He respects Jesus (and the Jewish customs) enough that he does not ask Jesus to come into his house and so make himself ceremonially unclean. He definitely sounds like an amazing man.