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Jesus heals the Official's son

Jesus speaks in Cana to heal a boy in Capernaum.
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Jesus had been in Samaria but He departed from there to Galilee. (For Jesus had testified that a prophet has no honour in his own country.) So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him because they had seen all the things Jesus had done in Jerusalem at the feast. – Slide 1
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Now Jesus came again to Cana in Galilee … – Slide 2
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… where He had made the water wine. – Slide 3
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In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick. – Slide 4
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When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to Him and begged Jesus to come down and heal his son, who was about to die. – Slide 5
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So Jesus said to him, ‘Unless you people see signs and wonders you will never believe!’ – Slide 6
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‘Sir,’ the official said to him, ‘come down before my child dies.’ Jesus told him, ‘Go home. Your son will live.’ – Slide 7
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The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home. While he was on his way down, his slaves met him and told him that his son was going to live. – Slide 8
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So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve, and they told him, ‘Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon the fever left him.’ – Slide 9
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Then the father realised that it was the very time Jesus had said to him, ‘Your son will live,’ and he believed along with his entire household. – Slide 10
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Jesus did this as His second miraculous sign when He returned from Judea to Galilee. – Slide 11
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A free downloadable video of this story is available in several resolutions and in many languages from www.gnpi.org/media/the-global-gospel. – Slide 12