John 4:43–54

A GALILEAN WELCOME

⁴³After two days he left there for Galilee.^{j 44}(Jesus himself had testified^k that a prophet has no honor in his own country.^l) ⁴⁵When^m they entered Galilee, the Galileansⁿ welcomed him because they had seen everything he did in Jerusalem^o during the festival.^p For they also had gone to the festival.

THE SECOND SIGN: HEALING AN OFFICIAL’S SON

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

⁴⁸Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders,^t you will not believe.”^u

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

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

⁵¹While he was still going down, his servants met him saying that his boy was alive. ⁵²He asked them at what time he got better. “Yesterday at one in the afternoon^F the fever left him,” they answered. ⁵³The father^w 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.

⁵⁴Now this was also the second sign^x Jesus performed after he came from Judea to Galilee.^y