John 4

A Royal Official’s Son Is Healed

46 Now he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was at Capernaum a certain royal official whose son was sick. 47 This man, when he**Here "when" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, went to him and asked that he come down and heal his son, for he was about to die. 48 So Jesus said to him, "Unless you people**Here "people" is supplied in the translation because the Greek verb ("see") is plural see signs and wonders, you will never believe!" 49 The royal official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies!" 50 Jesus said to him, "Go, your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he departed.

51 Now as**Here "as" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was going down") he was going down, his slaves met him, saying that his child was alive. 52 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." 53 So the father knew that it was that*Some manuscripts have "that it was at that same hour" same hour at which Jesus said to him, "Your son will live," and he himself believed, and his whole household. 54 Now this is again a second sign Jesus performed when he**Here "when" is supplied as a component of the participle ("came") which is understood as temporal came from Judea into Galilee.