On this week of Epiphany, we're still reading of outsiders who came to know Jesus. A Samaritan woman would have been one of the last people a Jewish rabbi would have thought to make a disciple, and yet this Samaritan woman becomes one of the first evangelists. And then a politician? Not much is known of this government official, they could have been Gentile or Jewish. Whatever they were, they were not a religious insider, and yet Jesus gives them the same treatment as someone he describes as having "great faith" in Matthew 8: he heals their family member without even being present.