John 4:52

52 The man asked, "What time did my son begin to get well?" They answered, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."

John 4:52 Meaning and Commentary

John 4:52

Then inquired he of them the hour
He did not at all hesitate about the truth of it, or was in any surprise upon it; but that he might compare things together, he asked the exact time,

when he began to amend;
or grow better; for he seemed to think, that his recovery might be gradual, and not all at once, as it was:

and they said unto him, yesterday at the seventh hour;
which was one o'clock in the afternoon:

the fever left him;
entirely at once, so that he was perfectly well immediately.

John 4:52 In-Context

50 Jesus answered, "Go. Your son will live." The man believed what Jesus told him and went home.
51 On the way the man's servants came and met him and told him, "Your son is alive."
52 The man asked, "What time did my son begin to get well?" They answered, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."
53 The father knew that one o'clock was the exact time that Jesus had said, "Your son will live." So the man and all the people who lived in his house believed in Jesus.
54 That was the second miracle Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.
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