John 4:50
Jesus said to him, “You can go home. Your son will get better.” The man believed Jesus’s words, so he left to go home.
Plain English Version
In The King James Version
In Context
49The man said, “Sir, please come to my house quickly before my son dies.”
51The next day, as he got close to his house, his workers met him and told him, “Your son is better.”
Cross References
Matthew 8:13Then Jesus said to the army boss, “You can go back home now. You are trusting me to make your work-man better, so I am doing it.” And right then, at that same time, that army boss’s work-man got better.
Mark 9:23Jesus said, “You said to me, ‘If you can.’ But you know that God is strong enough to do anything if you trust him to do it, right?”
John 4:51The next day, as he got close to his house, his workers met him and told him, “Your son is better.”
Acts 14:9As Paul was talking to the people there, that crippled man was sitting there listening to him. Paul looked straight at him, and when he saw that man’s face, he knew that the man believed that Jesus can make him better.
Matthew Henry on John 4:44-54
The Nobleman's Son Restored. 43 Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee. 44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country. 45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilæans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast. 46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus was… Read the whole commentary →