Miracles of Physical Healing— The Nobleman’s son
John 4:43-54
1. When you were a child, what was the most serious illness or injury you ever had?
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Jesus Heals an Official’s Son
John 4 43 At the end of the two days, Jesus went on to Galilee. 44 He himself had said that a prophet is not honored in his own hometown. 45 Yet the Galileans welcomed him, for they had been in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration and had seen everything he did there.
46 As he traveled through Galilee, he came to Cana, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a government official in nearby Capernaum whose son was very sick. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged Jesus to come to Capernaum to heal his son, who was about to die.
48 Jesus asked, “Will you never believe in me unless you see miraculous signs and wonders?”
49 The official pleaded, “Lord, please come now before my little boy dies.”
50 Then Jesus told him, “Go back home. Your son will live!” And the man believed what Jesus said and started home.
51 While the man was on his way, some of his servants met him with the news that his son was alive and well. 52 He asked them when the boy had begun to get better, and they replied, “Yesterday afternoon at one o’clock his fever suddenly disappeared!” 53 Then the father realized that that was the very time Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” And he and his entire household believed in Jesus. 54 This was the second miraculous sign Jesus did in Galilee after coming from Judea.
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“Will you never believe in me unless you see miraculous signs and wonders?”
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Questions of Discovery
Seeking God’s Message Then and Now
1. How do you account for the contrast between the crowd's welcome (v. 45) and Jesus' comments in verses 44 and 48? How are the Galileans alike and unlike the Samaritans in verses 39-42?
2. What motivates the royal official travel so far? (John 4:46-47) How would you have responded to what Jesus told him to do?
3. How sick was his son? (John 4:47)
4. What did Jesus tell the nobleman? (John 4:48)
5. What did the nobleman ask again? (John 4:49)
6. What was Jesus' answer and what did the nobleman do? (John 4:50)
7. As he was returning home, who met him and what was their message? (John 4:51)
8. What did the nobleman ask his servants, and what was their answer? (John 4:52)
9. what did the nobleman then know? (John 4:53)
10. What effect did the miracle have? (John 4:53)
11. What number of sign was this that Jesus did in Cana of Galilee? What was the first? (John 4:46, 54)
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Questions for
Personal Reflection
What does this miracle tell you about Jesus?
When you bring your problems to God (such as a sickness in the family), do you tend to accept his word or keep fretting and fussing?
When you have taken God at his word (even though the circumstances were seemingly impossible), and discovered that he did exactly what was promised?
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