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+title = "John 4:46–54"
+date = "2026-02-14"
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+### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/John4.46-54)
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+There are definitely times when I wish the narrative included more details than they do.
+In this case, I want to see how Jesus and the official behaved and reacted to each other during the conversation.
+We can imagine the official is showing concern for his son, hope in Jesus that He can make him better, and worry that it might already be too late to do anything.
+Jesus's response to this is weirdly abrupt, one could almost say it was callous.
+It sounds like He tells the official, "You don't really believe I can do this."
+Was the official offended or taken aback?
+Again, we aren't told.
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+What we get instead is a reiteration of the request to heal his son.
+On the one hand, this shows that he has a certain amount of faith in Jesus; that is, he hasn't given up in spite of what Jesus said to him.
+On the other, it kind of sounds like he's just ignored what Jesus said to him.
+This seems like a strange way to get someone to do what you request of them.
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+Jesus ends up giving this man what he wants, a healed son, but He does it in a way that proves the official really believes in Jesus.
+He tells him to go back home because his son will live.
+Jesus won't go anywhere, the man has no assurance besides Jesus's word, and it is likely that he won't know whether Jesus is right or not for several hours.
+(I don't know how long it takes to get to Cana from Capernaum, but we know they met in the early afternoon.)
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+John tells us that not only the official believed, but his whole household.
+This sounds like more than just the belief that Jesus healed the son, but like saving faith.
+It's the same phrase Luke uses in Acts to talk about Cornelius's household, and the Phillipian jailer's as well.
+Considering that John's Gospel has very little of Jesus's teaching in it, so far, this could be missed or misunderstood.
+But Jesus was teaching about the kingdom of God in parables and calling for the people to repent of their sins, so the signs and wonders He performed were not separated from the message He brought to the people, even though the Gospel writers tend to talk about them separately.
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+Help our unbelief, so that we may trust You in all things at all times.