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John 4:52–53

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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.” 4:53Then the father realized that it was the very time113 Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live,” and he himself believed along with his entire household.

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Footnotes

  1. 109 Grk “the hour.”
  2. 110 κομψότερον translates the idiom κομψότερον ἔχειν (kompsoteron echein) as “begin to improve.”
  3. 111 The second οὖν (oun) in 4:52 has been translated as “and” to improve English style by avoiding redundancy.
  4. 112 Grk “at the seventh hour.”
  5. 113 Grk “at that 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.” The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household.

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.”

Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household believed.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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

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!” Then the father realized that that was the very time Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” And he and his entire household believed in Jesus.

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.” So the father knew that it was that same hour at which Jesus said to him, “Your son will live,” and he himself believed, and his whole household.

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. So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.