John 4:46-54

Christian Standard Bible

The Second Sign: Healing an Official’s Son

⁴⁶ He went again to Cana^(A) of Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.^{(B) 47} When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea^(C) into Galilee, he went to him and pleaded with him to come down and heal his son, since he was about to die.

⁴⁸ Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders,^(D) you will not believe.”^(E)

⁴⁹ “Sir,”^(F) the official said to him, “come down before my boy dies.”

⁵⁰ “Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.” The man believed what^[a] Jesus said to him and departed.

⁵¹ While he was still going down, his servants met him saying that his boy was alive. ⁵² He asked them at what time he got better. “Yesterday at one in the afternoon^[b] the fever left him,” they answered. ⁵³ The father^(G) realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” So he himself believed, along with his whole household.

⁵⁴ Now this was also the second sign^(H) Jesus performed after he came from Judea to Galilee.^(I)