John 4:46-54

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⁴⁶ So he went once more to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine.

There was a royal official in Capernaum whose son was ill. ⁴⁷ He heard that Jesus had come from Judaea into Galilee, and he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, since he was at the point of death.

⁴⁸ “Unless you see signs and miracles,” replied Jesus, “you won’t ever believe.”

⁴⁹ “Sir,” replied the official, “come down before my child dies!”

⁵⁰ “Off you go!” said Jesus. “Your son will live!”

The man believed the word which Jesus had spoken to him, and he set off. ⁵¹ But while he was still on his way down to Capernaum, his servants met him with the news that his son was alive and well.

⁵² So he asked them what time he had begun to get better.

“Yesterday afternoon, about one o’clock,” they said. “That’s when the fever left him.”

⁵³ So the father knew that it had happened at the very moment when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live!” He himself believed, and so did all his household.

⁵⁴ This was now the second sign Jesus did, when he came out of Judaea into Galilee.