Straight after Jesus came down off the mount after teaching His disciples in an event whose echo sounded all the way back in time to Moses on the mount giving the commandments, Jesus enacted His greater-than-Moses authority by first of all doing for a child of Abraham what the Law could not do - healed him of his leprosy - and in a way which didn't break the Law (because He said to him 'Go show yourself to the priests and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses has commanded'); then secondly He did a miracle for a Gentile, and not just any Gentile, but a delegate of Caesar at that! on the basis of faith - in a move which pointed-forward to the the fact that Gentiles, even the 'worst' of them, would soon be embraced into Abraham's blessing simply on the basis of faith (not by becoming Proselytes to Judaism). And the remark is made that such faith as the Centurion's had not even been seen in Israel - hinting that Gentiles (who were without the law) could meet the conditions for receiving Abraham's promise while not all Jews would (despite having the law).
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