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John 4:51 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" As he was going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!” "
John 4:51
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49 The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
51 As he was going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”
52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.”
53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house.
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John 4:1
"Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John"
John 4:2
"(although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),"
John 4:3
"he left Judea and departed into Galilee."
John 4:4
"He needed to pass through Samaria."
John 4:5
"So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph."
John 4:6
"Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour."
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