John 4:43-54 - Healed from miles away

time, space, Jesus

Day 9 of 47 going through John's gospel - more info at https://www.severnvineyard.org/time-space-jesus

What could happen if you take time and make space with Jesus today? This ten-minute podcast is part reading, part music, and part silence, all designed to help you create a space to picture and feel the scene with Jesus in it. You can use this space in lots of ways, including meditation, prayer, re-reading the passage or thinking about what it means for you today.

Today's reflection: How has Jesus ever surprised you with what he can do? How would you want him to?

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After two days, Jesus left there and went into Galilee. For Jesus himself declared that a prophet has no honour in his own country. So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him - they had seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, because they were there too. So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water into wine.

There was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, the official went to Jesus and begged him to come down and heal his son, who was at the point of death. Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe a thing.”

The official pleaded with him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

Jesus said to him, “Go on your way. Your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him, and he went on his way. While he was on his journey, his servants met him and reported, “Your boy lives!” So he asked them the time when his son began to get better. They told him, “Yesterday at 1pm, the fever left him.” Then the father realised that this was the time when Jesus said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household believed.

This was the second sign that Jesus performed, after coming from Judea into Galilee.