John 4:52-53

4:52 So he asked them the time ¹  when his condition began to improve, ²  and ³  they told him, “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon ⁴  the fever left him.” 4:53 Then the father realized that it was the very time ⁵  Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live,” and he himself believed along with his entire household.

¹ tn Grk “the hour.”

² tn BDAG 558 s.v. κομψότερον translates the idiom κομψότερον ἔχειν (komyoteron ecein) as “begin to improve.”

³ tn The second οὖν (oun) in 4:52 has been translated as “and” to improve English style by avoiding redundancy.

⁴ tn Grk “at the seventh hour.”

⁵ tn Grk “at that hour.”