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A Nobleman’s Son Healed

46 So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee awhere He had made the water wine. And there was a certain1 nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.  
47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
48 Then Jesus said to him, a“Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.”  
49 The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”
50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!”
52 Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
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John 4:48

Except ye see (ean mh idhte). Condition of the third class (ean mh, negative, with second aorist active subjunctive of oraw). Jesus is not discounting his "signs and wonders" (shmeia kai terata, both words together here only in John, though common in N.T. as in Matthew 24:24; Mark 13:22; Acts 2:19, Acts 2:22, Acts 2:43; II Thessalonians 2:9; Hebrews 2:4), though he does seem disappointed that he is in Galilee regarded as a mere miracle worker.

Ye will in no wise believe (ou mh pisteushte). Strong double negative with aorist active subjunctive of pisteuw, picturing the stubborn refusal of people to believe in Christ without miracles.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 4:48:

Matthew 24:24
Luke 8:3
Revelation 12:1

 

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