41.Q. What learn you from hence?
A. That though there are many external proofs of the divinity of Christ’s doctrine, yet his own words or his doctrine best explains itself: the divine image and superscription being written on every precept and line of it.
47.Q. What learn we from the Nobleman’s coming to Christ about his sick son?
A. That parents should apply to Christ for their sick children, and that afflictions should drive us to God.
48.Q. Wherein was this Nobleman to be blamed?
A. In that he confined Christ’s power to his bodily presence. Therefore to convince him of his frailty, and to strengthen his faith, Christ cured his son at a distance.
52.Q. What is meant by the seventh hour?
A. One in the afternoon.
53.Q. What learn we from this verse?
A. That bodily distempers are all cured by the power of Christ, and that those who are now recovered from sickness, are raised up as certainly though not so visibly by him, as was the Nobleman’s son.