"There is no need for me to come," said Jesus. "You may go home, for your son will live and will get well."
These words would make a heavy trial to this man's faith in Jesus. For how could he know that his son would be well, without any sign given him by Jesus? And how could he understand that Jesus by a word could cure someone who he had not seen and who was twenty miles away? But the father at once believed the promise of Jesus. He did not even hurry home to see if his boy was cured, but waited until evening before starting upon his journey.
The next day, as he was nearing home, his servants met him with the glad news:
"Your son is living and is very much better."
"At what time," said the nobleman, "did he begin to improve?"
"It was yesterday," they told him, "at about one o'clock when the fever left him."
The man was not surprised, for it was just as he had expected. That hour, one o'clock, was the very time that Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live."
This miracle, or work of wonder, was much talked about and led not only this nobleman, but all his family with him, to believe that Jesus was the Saviour and the King of Israel who had been promised so long.