Christian teaching

A. From Judea to Galilee/first sign: ⁴⁶So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine.

B. Official/son/ill: And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill.

C. Trip/asked Jesus/point of death: ⁴⁷When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

D. Jesus’ signs/belief: ⁴⁸So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.

E. Request/come/child dies: ⁴⁹The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.

E1. Answer/go/son lives: ⁵⁰Jesus said to him, “Go, your son lives.”

D1. Belief/Jesus’ word: The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.

C1. Trip/asked servants/fever left him: ⁵¹As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his child lives.  ⁵²So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”

B1. Father/son/lives: ⁵³The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son lives.”

A1. Second sign/from Judea to Galilee: ⁵⁴And he himself believed and all his household. This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.

(William Higgins and Harold Metz)