^4:52So he asked them the time¹⁰⁹ when his condition began to improve,¹¹⁰ and¹¹¹ they told him, “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon¹¹² the fever left him.”

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Footnotes

109 Grk “the hour.”
110 κομψότερον translates the idiom κομψότερον ἔχειν (kompsoteron echein) as “begin to improve.”
111 The second οὖν (oun) in 4:52 has been translated as “and” to improve English style by avoiding redundancy.
112 Grk “at the seventh hour.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He asked them at what time he got better. “Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him,” they answered.

NLTNew Living Translation

He asked them when the boy had begun to get better, and they replied, “Yesterday afternoon at one o’clock his fever suddenly disappeared!”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

So he inquired from them the hour at which he had gotten better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”

KJV 1900King James Version

Then inquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

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