Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 8:5-6

"And when he was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, and saying, Lord, my servant lieth in the house sick of the palsy, grievously tormented." — Matthew 8:5-6 (ASV)

Beseeching him, and saying, Lord, my servant lies at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.

Sir Risdon Bennett tells us that there is a species of palsy which is accompanied with great pain, and we know, even from the apocrypha, there is a case there of a man grievously tormented with palsy – not exactly the same thing, perhaps, that we call palsy nowadays.