John 4:51
49 “Sir,” the official said, “come down before my child dies.”
50 “Go,” said Jesus. “Your son will live.” The man took Jesus at His word and departed.
And while he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive.
52 So he inquired as to the hour when his son had recovered, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.”
53 Then the father realized that this was the very hour in which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” And he and all his household believed.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- And while he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive.
- KJV
- And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.
- WEB
- As he was going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”
- ASV
- And as he was now going down, his servants met him, saying, that his son lived.
- DARBY
- But already, as he was going down, his servants met him and brought [him] word saying, Thy child lives.
- BLB
- And already, [in] his going down, his servants met him, saying that his boy lives.
- ÅB
- Da han nå alt var på hjemveien, møtte hans tjenere ham og fortalte at hans barn levde.
- OTB
- Mens han var på vei, møtte tjenerne hans ham med bud om at gutten hans levde.
- B1930
- Da han nu alt var på hjemveien, møtte hans tjenere ham og fortalte at hans barn levde.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Kings 17:23
Then Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. “Look, your son is alive,” Elijah declared.
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