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Text -- John 4:41-54 (NET)
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4:41 and because of his word many more believed .
4:42 They said to the woman , “No longer do we believe because of your words , for we have heard for ourselves , and we know that this one really is the Savior of the world .”
Onward to Galilee
4:43 After the two days he departed from there to Galilee .
4:44 (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country .)
4:45 So when he came to Galilee , the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had gone to the feast ).
Healing the Royal Official’s Son
4:46 Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine . In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick .
4:47 When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee , he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son , who was about to die .
4:48 So Jesus said to him , “Unless you people see signs and wonders you will never believe !”
4:49 “Sir ,” the official said to him , “come down before my child dies .”
4:50 Jesus told him , “Go home ; your son will live .” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him , and set off for home .
4:51 While he was on his way down , his slaves met him and told him that his son was going to live .
4:52 So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve , and they told him , “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon the fever left him .”
4:53 Then the father realized that it was the very time 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 sign when he returned from Judea to Galilee .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Jesus, The Christ |
JESUS CHRIST, 4C1 |
Faith |
Children |
Miracles |
Capernaum |
Nobleman |
JOHN, GOSPEL OF |
Cana |
Galilee |
Shechem |
NOBLE; NOBLES; NOBLEMAN |
Sign |
Converts |
Judea |
Intercession |
Prayer |
Samaria |
Testimony |
FEVER |
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NET Notes: Joh 4:42 There is irony in the Samaritans’ declaration that Jesus was really the Savior of the world, an irony foreshadowed in the prologue to the Fourth...
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NET Notes: Joh 4:45 John 4:44-45. The last part of v. 45 is a parenthetical note by the author. The major problem in these verses concerns the contradiction between the p...
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NET Notes: Joh 4:46 Although βασιλικός (basiliko") has often been translated “nobleman” it is almost certain...
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NET Notes: Joh 4:47 The direct object of ἠρώτα (hrwta) is supplied from context. Direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear fro...
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NET Notes: Joh 4:48 Or “you never believe.” The verb πιστεύσητε (pisteushte) is aorist subjunctive and may h...
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NET Notes: Joh 4:51 Traditionally, “servants.” Though δοῦλος (doulos) is normally translated “servant,” the word do...
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