The Official's Son

Jesus came to Cana in Galilee. This is where He had turned the water into wine at the wedding feast. 

Now, in Capernaum, there was a royal official whose son lay sick, and was dying. And when the official heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to Jesus and begged Him to come down to Capernaum and heal his son.

Jesus thought the official wanted a sign to prove Jesus' authority in what He said and did. He said to the man, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe.”

But the official pleaded, "Sir, come down before my child dies.”

Then Jesus said to the man, “Go, your son will live.”

The man took Jesus at His word and departed. And while he was still on the way back to Capernaum, his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive.

So, the man asked at what hour his son had recovered, and the servants told him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour."

Then the father realized that this was the very hour in which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” And he and all his household believed.

This was now the second miraculous sign that Jesus performed after coming from Judea into Galilee.

(See John 4:46-54)

(Editor's Note: This was not Jesus's second miraculous sign after arriving in Gallilee that time. But rather it was the second time that Jesus had come to Galilee from Judea and had then performed a miracle.)

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