Watch and Discuss:

Watch a video clip from Season 4, episode 4: (Based on Luke Chapter 7, verses 1-10). As you watch, take notes and be prepared to answer the following questions:

1. What were Jesus and His disciples getting ready to do when Gaius came to talk to Jesus?
2. What colour was Gaius’s uniform?
3. How did Gaius show respect to Jesus when he spoke with Him?
4. What furniture did you notice in the house?
5. How many disciples saw Gaius in the street later?
6. What was the first thing Gaius did after entering his own home?

Listening Practice:

Watch the video clip again and fill in the missing words from the box on the right:

Matthew: Gaius, this way.

Jesus: Praetor Gaius?

Gaius: Lord, my servant boy is lying at home. He has been sick for so long now that he is terribly, near death.

Jesus: Take me to him.

Gaius: Lord?

Nathanael: You call him, “Lord”?

Gaius: I am not to have you come into my home, and I know you would not be comfortable as a Jew in a Roman's home, but you only need to say the word, and he will be .

Jesus: Not worthy?

Gaius: The truth, about the child, he's actually my son. I am so ; I shouldn't even be asking you, but I am, and I know you can do it.

Peter: Master, I never thought I'd say this, but he is worthy to have you do this for him. He loves our people. He has us.

Jesus: I know.

Gaius: Do not trouble yourself. You can heal him from a with only a word of command. I also have authority with men under me. If I say to one, “Go”, he goes. If I say to another, “Come”, he comes. Anything you in this world will happen. I know it. Even this.

Jesus: Stand up!

Gaius: What?

Jesus: ! Did you all hear this man? Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith. I was in my own hometown, and I'm by the religious leaders of my own people, and yet, and yet this man, a Gentile, has more confidence in what he believes that I can do, than anyone I have yet . Go. It has been done for you according to your .

Gaius: Thank you.

Jesus: Thank you. You have my day to encounter this kind of faith.

John: What? What happened?

Peter: Gaius had faith that Jesus could heal his without even coming to his house.

James: We know he can do that.

John: But such from a Gentile…

Jesus: Exactly.

(Gaius arrives home)

Livia: Gaius. You’re not going to believe it.

Gaius: It’s something my friends say. It means peace, wholeness. OK? You are whole again.

Gaius: I do believe it.

The boys: Sha-lom.

Livia: What? What?

Gaius: Say it twice.

Gaius: I already know.

The boys: Shalom. Shalom.

Gaius’s son: Daddy, look!

Gaius: That’s it. Well done.

Gaius: Shalom.

Livia: Shalom.

Gaius’s son: What?

Vocabulary Exercises:

Match the words on the left with the definitions on the right.

Completion Exercise:

Complete these sentences with words from the exercise above: (Hint: you may need to change the form of some words)

1. He asked her four times to go out for dinner, and each time she him.
2. We a coyote as we walked through the park yesterday.
3. The manager to fire the employee unless her work improved.
4. The sun every morning.
5. The army officer gave a to his soldiers to move forward.
6. Bob’s hard work and sharp mind made him of a university scholarship.
7. His face whenever his little son comes running towards him.
8. Business leaders like to think of plans.

Discussion Questions:

1. What was wrong with the servant boy?
2. Describe the feelings between Jews and Romans in Jesus’ time.
3. What was Gaius ashamed about?
4. Who recommended to Jesus that He should help Gaius? Why did he recommend him?
5. How did Gaius brighten Jesus’s day that day?
6. Why did Gaius blow out some candles when He got home?
7. What Hebrew word did Gaius teach his family? Why?