Healing the Royal Official’s Son

4:46 Now he came again to Cana97 in Galilee where he had made the water wine.98 In99 Capernaum100 there was a certain royal official101 whose son was sick. 4:47 When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him102 to come down and heal his son, who was about to die. 4:48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people103 see signs and wonders you will never believe!”104 4:49 “Sir,” the official said to him, “come down before my child dies.” 4:50 Jesus told him, “Go home;105 your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home.106

4:51 While he was on his way down,107 his slaves108 met him and told him that his son was going to live. 4:52 So 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.” 4:53 Then 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. 4:54 Jesus did this as his second miraculous sign114 when he returned from Judea to Galilee.